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[Chap. 



June, 

 1874. 



potatoes, and other articles of food for sale. They were chiefly 

 women, the men being away on jom*neys ; for, like the Warua, 

 of whom they are a branch, they are a traveling and trading 

 race. 



The women wore their hair after the fashion of those at the 

 entrance of the Lnknga, already described. Their ornaments 

 consisted of coiled bracelets of brass wire, bangles of iron, brass, 

 and copper round tlicir ankles, strings of large singo-ma/.zi 

 round their necks and waists, and a band of cowries, or small 

 beads, bound around their heads. 



The upper part of the forehead was often painted in stripes 

 of vermilion and black, which had not 

 such an unpleasing effect as might be sup- 

 posed. Round the waist was a piece of 

 fringed grass-cloth, about eighteen inches 

 deep, and open in front ; but in the hia- 

 tus they wore a narrow apron reaching to 

 the knees, and frequently ornamented by 

 lines of cowries or beads down the centre. 

 The hoes used in this district are large 

 and heavy, but their hatchets are the 

 smallest and most useless I ever saw, the 

 blade being only an inch and a half wide. 

 Their arrows are, however, broad -head- 

 ed, deeply barbed, and poisoned. All the 

 men carry whistles, with which they sig- 

 nal to each other on the road. 

 Some "VVarua arrived while we were here, having dried fish 

 and the scented oil of the mpafu-tree for sale ; and it occurred 

 to me as curious that, although the Tanganyika abounds in fish, 

 the people dry only the small minnow-like " dagga," and are 

 always ready to buy that brought a distance of a hundred and 

 fifty miles or more by the Warua. 



After leaving Mekcto, we did not make another halt until 

 the 16th of J line, when we reached the village of Fakwany wa, 

 chief of Ubudjwa, one long march beyond Kwamrora Kasea. 



Streams without number were passed during this march. 

 The principal, the Rubiimba — one of the most im})ortant afflu- 

 ents of Luama, and often confused with the Lugumba — we 



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