448 THE WAIYAU RACE. 



grain-growing population. Clay pipes, which had been used on 

 the nozzles of bellows and inserted into the furnaces, were met 

 with everywhere : # these were often vitrified. Then the ridges 

 on which maize, beans, cassava, and sorghum had been planted, 

 remained unlevelled, attesting the industry of the former inhab- 

 itants. Pieces of broken pots, with their rims ornamented with 

 very good imitations of basket work, attest that the lady potters 

 of old followed here the example given them by their still more 

 ancient mothers. The desolation of this splendid region could 

 not be attributed to those causes which had operated farther 

 south. The ground was fertile, and there were any number of 

 fresh, cool fountains. It is a vast succession of hills and valleys, 

 with numerous running streams. The un- African sound of 

 gushing waters dashing over the rocks was sweet music in his 

 ears, and brought back freshly to his mind the charming scenes 

 of his own far-away land. He mentions counting fifteen run- 

 ning burns of from one to ten yards wide in one day's march 

 of about six hours; being in a hilly or rather mountainous 

 region, they flow rapidly and have plenty of water-power. In 

 July any mere torrent ceases to flow, but these were brawling 

 burns with water too cold (61°) for people to bathe in whose 

 pores were all open by the relaxing regions nearer the coast. 

 This district is very elevated, rising thirty-four hundred feet 

 above the level of the sea. The atmosphere is moist, and the 

 sky is generally overcast until ten o'clock in the day. 



The Waiyau are described as far from a handsome race, but 

 they are not the prognathous beings one sees on the west coast 

 either. Their heads are of a round shape ; compact foreheads, 

 but not particularly receding ; the alee nasi are flattened out ; 

 lips full, and with the women a small lip-ring just turns them 

 up to give additional thickness. Their style of beauty is ex- 

 actly that which was in fashion when the stone deities were 

 made in the caves of Elephanta and Kenora near Bombay. A 

 iavorite mode of dressing the hair into little knobs, which was 

 in fashion there, is more common in some tribes than in this. 

 The mouths of the women would not be so hideous with a small 

 lip-ring if they did not file their teeth to points; but they seem 

 strong and able for the work which falls to their lot. The men 

 are large, strong-boned fellows, and capable of enduring great 



