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of raised pattern. As a rule, the hair was brought down to the September, 

 eyebrows and round to the nape of the neck, so as to entirely ^^''^■ 

 conceal the ears. 



Many further adorned their heads with a piece of sheet tin 

 or copper, punched and cut into fanciful patterns, and some 

 wore a couj)le of small locks hanging down on each side of the 

 face. There were numerous varieties, in working out these 

 fashions according to individual taste, but all had a certain 

 likeness to those here described. 



AEMS AND OENAMENTS. 



On approaching Sha Kelembe's, the roaring of some cataracts 

 of the Lumeji was heard; but I had no opportunity of seeing 

 them, as the road led us away from the banks of the river. 



To reach the village we passed what might well have been 

 mistaken in England for an ornamental shrubbery, with bushes 

 like laurels and laurestines, while jasmine and other sweet- 

 scented plants and creepers rendered the air heavy with their 

 odor. I thought I distinguished the smell of vanilla, but could 

 not discover from what plant it proceeded. 



Alvez was evidently on good terms with Sha Kelembe, and 

 managed to make excuses to delay us till the 12th of Septem- 

 ber ; but, notwithstanding this friendship, Sha Kelembe mulct- 

 ed him heavily during his stay, and compelled him to pay two 

 slaves and a gun to Mata Yafa — the paramount chief of the 

 western portion of Lovale, and not to be confounded with the 

 Mata Yafa in Ulunda. One of the slaves thus sent away was 

 a woman who, I had reason to suppose, was the favorite concu- 

 bine of Alvez ; and another of his harem was bartered away for 



