recollect they had .but very little flesh on them, but this
had a fine flavour of venison with a salty taste, one of the
reasons why cannibals greatly relish human flesh. I may
add that cannibals seldom eat this meat without having
kept it for a few days; usually they bury it, and when it
is a point they feast on it. A great deal of unsuspected
cannibalism still exists in Africa; for instance, in Nyasa-
land in many cases the dead are secretly unburied and
eaten up. This practice is, however, strongly condemned
by local public opinion, and whenever those who have
been guilty of it are discovered they are condemned to be
burned alive.
But to return to my journey. I gave myself a month to
reach Urambo, another to Uganda, a month’s stay there,
and then three more to the coast. At that rate I should
sail for Europe early in 1894. At the time my hope was
to find the late Sir Gerald Portal in Uganda and return
with him. But that was not to be.
