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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 mornings 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. 



I hear that some of Nsama's people crossed the Lovu 

 at Karambo to plunder, in retaliation for what they have 

 suffered, and the people there were afraid to fish, lest they 

 should be caught by them at a distance from their stockades. 



The Biiulungu 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 

 whites. One or two of the under front teeth are generally 

 knocked out in women, and also in men. 



14th July. — Syde added to his other presents some more 

 beads : all have been very kind, which I attribute in a 

 great measure to Seyed Majid's letter. Hamees crossed the 

 Lovu to-day at a fordable spot. The people on the other 

 side refused to go with a message to Nsama, so Hamees 

 had to go and compel them by destroying their stockade. 

 A second village acted in the same way, though told that 

 it was only peace that was sought of Nsama : this stockade 

 suffered the same fate, and then the people went to Nsama, 

 and he showed no reluctance to have intercourse. He gave 

 abundance of food, pombe, and bananas ; the country being 

 extremely fertile. Nsama also came and ratified the peace 

 by drinking blood with several of the underlings of Hamees. 

 He is said to be an enormously bloated old man, who cannot 

 move unless carried, and women are constantly in attend- 

 ance pouring pombe into him. He gave, Hamees ten tusks, 

 and promised him twenty more, and also to endeavour to 

 make his people return what goods they plundered from the 



