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with people. At every village stands were erected, and piles 

 of the native corn, still unthrashed, placed upon them ; some 

 had been beaten out, put into oblong parcels made of grass, 

 and stacked in wooden frames. 



We crossed several rivulets in our course, as the Mandora, 

 the Lofia, the Manzaia (with brackish water), the Eimbe, the 

 Chibue, the Chezia, the Chilola (containing fragments of coal), 

 which did little more than mark our progress. The island and 

 rapid of Nakansalo, of which we had formerly heard, were of no 

 importance, the rapid being but half-a-mile long, and only on 

 one side of the island. The island Kaluzi marks one of the 

 numerous places where astronomical observations were made ; 

 Mozia, a station where a volunteer poet left us ; the island 

 Mochenya, and Mpande island, at the mouth of the Zungwe 

 rivulet, where we left the Zambesi. 



When favoured with the hospitality and company of the 

 " Go-nakeds," we tried to discover if nudity were the badge 

 of a particular order among the Bawe, but they could only 

 refer to custom. Some among them had always liked it for 

 no reason in particular : shame seemed to lie dormant, and 

 the sense could not be aroused by our laughing and joking 

 them on their appearance. They evidently felt no less 

 decent than we did with our clothes on ; but, whatever may 

 be said in favour of nude statues, it struck us that man, in 

 a state of nature, is a most ungainly animal. Could we see a 

 number of the degraded of our own lower classes in like 

 guise, it is probable, that, without the black colour which 

 acts somehow as a dress, they would look worse still. 



In domestic contentions the Bawe are careful not to kill 

 each other ; but, when one village goes to war with another, 

 they are not so particular. The victorious party are said to 

 quarter one of the bodies of the enemies they may have killed, 



