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Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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day was called on to arbitrate betweentwo villages on the question of the accidental slayingof an inhabitant of one of them. The chiefs were gratefulfor his assistance, but at the same time his decision thatno compensation need be paid did not give universalsatisfaction. Torday puts this down to the fact thatthe minds of the black and white men do not considersuch matters from the same point of view. A few days afterwards Torday set out for Kolokoto,in the Bambala country. Kolokoto is a small villageof about one hundred inhabitants in all. The chief,Kikungulu, was a man of repulsive appearance, anduniversally detested, but believed to possess magicpowers. Torday was in need of a servant, and hadmarked one intelligent boy as well suited for hispurpose. But the boy was the chiefs bondsmanand could do nothing without the chiefs consent.So negotiations were opened, and after beating downseveral preposterous demands for compensation, Tordaysecured the boy as his servant. He proved truthful
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A Typical Woman from the Triur of Zappo Zap The more the traveller goes eastward, the more refined the features of the natives become, in somespecimens one finds very few of the characteristics usually attributed to negroes. The black colourso common on the West Coast, is replaced by a soft chocolate-brown, which in certain individualmerges into dark yellow. Kasai people speak of the inhabitants of the Lower Congo as blacknegroes. IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA 161 and honest, and of great value in securing informa-tion of ethnological interest otherwise unattainable.Early one morning, Torday heard the firing of gunsin the village, and enquired the reason. Meysey,the boy, replied that there was to be a funeral, andvolunteered the information that a man was to beburied alive for witchcraft, having been proved guiltyby the poison ordeal. Torday made his way to the placeand saw a good-looking grey-beard seated near a freshly-dug grave, eating and drinking, and near him stoodKikungulu. Torday ask

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