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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 ; the}' take 

 them with pots, having neither nets, hooks, uor 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 oo 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 chmtz, 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, Avhich 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 half a 

 dozen times towards the quarter in which they are sup- 



