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be " clean " to slaughter animals for food ; it being unlawful for a Mohammedan to eat meat killed by an " infidel." Most of them, however, have little

acquaintance with the tenets of the religion which

they profess, and rarely if ever repeat the prescribed

prayers ; I had many of them in my service for more

than two years, and never knew any of them to pray

except on one occasion, when we were overtaken by

a terrific storm on the Victoria Lake and our boat was

in imminent danger of being swamped. Although most of them have been brought from the interior

as slaves, they look down with infinite contempt

upon their brethren of the mainland, calling them

Washenzi or savages. The Wang'uana are as im-

provident a class as it is possible to find anywhere, and never give a 'thought to the future ; conse-

quently it is no punishment to them to stop their

pay for misconduct or breaches of discipline. When

a Mng'uana returns from the interior with his

pocket full of money he buys a brand-new suit of

clothes and a cane and is quite the elegant gentleman

for a short time, eating and drinking of the best, and

indulging in nightly carouses with his boon com-

panions. But when his money is all gone, as it

usually is in a few weeks, he sells his clothes, and when the proceeds have all disappeared he is reduced

to rags and is glad to engage again for another two

or three years' journey into the interior. On the

march they are always trying to shirk their work,