522 THE BAULUNGU. 



of them finding their way ultimately into the lake. The 

 calculations of Dr. Livingstone fixed the village in long. 30° 

 19' E., lat. 8° 57' 55" S. Of the people the doctor says : 



" The Baulungu men are in general tall and well formed ; 

 they use bows over six feet in length, and but little bent. The 

 facial angle is as good in most cases as in Europeans, and they 

 have certainly as little of the ' lark-heel ' as the whites. One 

 or two of the under front teeth are generally knocked out in 

 women, and also in men. 



" Close observation of them makes me believe them to be ex- 

 tremely polite. The mode of salutation among relatives is to 

 place the hands round each other's chests kneeling ; they then 

 clap their hands close to the ground. Some more abject indi- 

 viduals kiss the soil before a chief; the generality kneel only, 

 with the fore-arms close to the ground, and the head bowed 

 down to them, saying, ' O Ajadla chiusa, Mari a bwino.' The 

 Usanga say, 'Aje senga.' The clapping of hands to superiors, 

 and even equals, is in some villages a perpetually recurring 

 sound. Aged persons are usually saluted. How this extreme 

 deference to each other could have arisen, I cannot conceive ; it 

 does not seem to be fear of each other that elicits it. Even the 

 chiefs inspire no fear, and those cruel old platitudes about gov- 

 erning savages by fear seem unknown, yet governed they 

 certainly are, and upon the whole very well. 



" The owners of huts lend them willingly to strangers, and 

 have a great deal of toil in consequence ; they have to clean 

 them after the visitors have withdrawn ; then, in addition to 

 this, to clean themselves, all soiled by the dust left by the lodg- 

 ers ; their bodies and clothes have to be cleansed afterwards ; 

 they add food too in all cases of acquaintanceship, and then we 

 have to remember the labor of preparing that food. My re- 

 maining here enables me to observe that both men and women 

 are in almost constant employment. The men are making 

 mats, or weaving, or spinning;" no one could witness their 

 assiduity in their little affairs and conclude that they were a 

 lazy people. The only idle time I observe here is in the morn- 

 ings about seven o'clock, when all come and sit to catch the 

 first rays of the sun as he comes over our clump of trees, but 

 even that time is often taken as an opportunity for stringing 

 beads. 



