DESCRIPTION OF THE ARBORE. 261 
guides as far as the Burle, a tribe living a couple of 
marches to the north, and also to sell plenty of animals the 
next day. I told them that I never fought natives unless 
they attacked me first, and that I was not going to force 
them to do anything they did not wish, but that I had 
merely come to ask them to sell me their animals. 
ARBORE NECKLACES AND BELL FOR ANKLE. 
The old men were very reassuring in their manner when 
I left them, but many of the young men still kept up a 
kind of danse du ventre, throwing their heads first for- 
ward and then backward, as though itching for a fight. 
They wore only a loin-cloth, but many of them had leopard- 
skins hanging down their backs, and huge caps of ostrich 
