And 28§ E. Long., Is The Country Of Namachi; And
Further West Still About 2§, The Wilyanwantu, Or Cannibals, Who,
According to the report both here and at Karague, "bury cows but
eat men." These distant people pay their homage
To Kamrasi,
though they have six degrees of longitude to travel over. They
are, I believe, a portion of the N'yam N'yams - another name for
cannibal - whose country Petherick said he entered in 1857-58.
Among the other wild legends about this people, it was said that
the Wilyanwantu, in making brotherhood, exchanged their blood by
drinking at one another's veins; and, in lieu of butter with
their porridge, they smear it with the fat of fried human flesh.
20th. - I had intended for to-day an expedition to the lake; but
Kamrasi, harbouring a wicked design that we should help in an
attack on his brothers, said there was plenty of time to think of
that; we would only find that all the waters united go to Gani,
and he wished us to be his guests for three or four months at
least. Fifty Gani men had just arrived to inform him that Rionga
had lately sent ten slaves and ten ivory tusks to Petherick's
post, to purchase a gun; but the answer was, that a thousand
times as much would not purchase a weapon that might be used
against us; for our arrival with Kamrasi had been heard of, and
nothing would be done to jeopardise our road.
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