CHAPTER III.

Back in camp—An epidemic of small-pox—Panic of 48 desertion—Kalulu’s disloyalty—Livingstone’s lenience—Imaginary terrors—Hairdressing _ad absurdum_—Ruanga’s opinion of white men—A village sketch—The villagers of Uhombo—_In puris naturalibus_—A touch of human nature—On Livingstone’s traces—What is there in feathers?—The Manyema: their life and manners—Our ass astonishes the natives—Bloodless wars—Nicknames—A tribe with beards but no wives—The confluence of the Luama and the Livingstone