The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources

CHAPTER VI.

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THE FUNERAL DANCE.

A Funeral Dance--Bari Interpreters--Commoro, the Lion--Conversation with Commoro--"Where will the Spirit live?"--"Good and bad all die"-- Failure of the religious Argument--Further Conversation--The Camel poisoned--Habits of the Camel--Camel's peculiar Constitution--The Hygeen, or riding Dromedary--Loss of Camel a Misfortune--Dirty Donkeys