XXX.] A HEAD OF HAIR. 39I 



^ The chief of Kapeka also came with a large pot of pombe as October, 

 his share of the debauch, and a general drink round then com- 1875. ' 

 menced. 



HEAD OF HAIK AT KAPEKA. 



The hair of the chief wife of the principal mulatto was frizzed 

 to such an enormous extent that her head would scarcely have 

 gone into a bushel-basket. She, as well as her husband, Fran- 

 cisco Domingo Camoen, was a light mulatto. 



At the village there was a herd of about forty cattle belong- 

 ing to the chief; but although they were imported from the 

 Kaffir countries where they are commonly milked, no milk 

 was obtained from them here, as the natives declared that they 

 were much too fierce to allow of any attempt being made. For- 

 merly the herds about Bihe were more numerous; but, some 

 years since, a cattle plague, or murrain, swept them entirely 

 away, and those in the country at this time had been brought 

 from Jenje. 



Nearly two hours were occupied the following morning in 

 ferrying the caravan across the Kokema, about forty yards wide 

 and two fathoms deep at this point. 



Shortly afterward, a disturbance arose between some of my 

 people and the natives, owing to one of my men who retired 

 into a patch of cultivated ground having been discovered there 

 by the owner. He demanded compensation for his land having 

 been defiled, and had to be appeased by a present of cloth. 



