82 DEL AGO A BAY. 



Some women tattoo their faces all over with 

 small pricks in which the juice from the cashew 

 nut is rubbed, and occasionally one sees a 

 Chobi woman with stomach, chest, and back 

 tattood into the most elaborate patterns, and 

 the two top front teeth pointed. 



The language of the country is Landi or 

 Amalandi, and is used and understood fur in 

 the interior. It is very musical and pretty, and 

 has many pleasing modulations in tone. 



Indigo-blue is the colour worn for mourning, 

 and I regret to say that at present it is the 

 prevailing colour, for Machequene, the country 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of Loureno 

 Marques, has just been visited by an epidemic 

 of small-pox, which has carried off a great many 

 of the natives, the number of deaths no doubt 

 due in great measure to the pernicious system 

 of inoculation practised amongst them. 



A great many were vaccinated by the Govern- 

 ment doctor and the British Vice-Consul, and 

 I believe all those so treated escaped the in- 

 fection. 



