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mere article of covering their nakedness. ‘The huts were 
still of the same formation as below. ‘The palm trees were 
more abundant. Fish very plentiful, and of several species 
unknown, excepting that one was a small bream; they take 
them with pots, having neither nets, hooks, nor lines. 
The great encrease in the number of Paria dogs de- 
notes an encreased stock of provisions ; though it would 
appear, from their being half starved, like those of an Indian 
bazar, that they were not well fed: they never bark, but 
howl like a jackal; they have pricked ears. 
Sept. 5. I discovered to-day that the Inga men were de- 
termined to stay here for my return, being, as they asserted, 
afraid to go back themselves. 
Finding it impossible to get canoes without the inter- 
ference of the Chenoo of Yonga, I sent forwards one of the 
black men (the guide of Inga,) with a piece of chintz, as a 
present to be divided among his great men. Having given to 
the interpreter and to my other Embomma man a dress of 
chintz each, they amused us by performing Songa, which is 
a kind of war dance, and a hunting dance, a pantomime, 
and a love dance. In the war dance, the performer, with 
a sword, looks about from side to side as if expecting the 
enemy ; at last he sees them, flourishes his sword halfa 
dozen times towards the quarter in which they are sup- 
