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burned by Tipo Tipo, as Hamidi bin Mohained was named 

 by Nsania* I sent a message to Nsania, and received an 

 invitation to come and visit him, but bring no guns. A, 

 large crowd of bis people went with, us, and before we came 

 to the inner stockade they felt my clothes to see that no 

 firearms were concealed about my person. When we reached 

 Nsama, we found a very old man, with a good head and 

 face and a large abdomen,. showing that he was addicted to 

 pombe : his people have to carry him. I gave him a cloth,. 

 and asked for guides to Moero, which he readily granted, 

 and asked leave to feel my clothes and hair. I advised him 

 to try and live at peace, but his people were all so much 

 beyond the control of himself and headmen, that at last, 

 after scolding them, he told me that he would send for me 

 by night, and then we could converse, but this seems to have 

 gone out of his head. He sent, me a goat, flour, and pombe, 

 and next day we returned to Hara. 



Nsama's people have generally small, well-chiseled fea- 

 tures, and many are really handsome, and have nothing of 

 the West Coast Negro about them, but they file their teeth, 

 to sharp points, and greatly disfigure their mouths. The 

 only difference between them and Europeans is the colour. 

 Many of the men have very finely-formed heads, and so have 

 the women; and the fashion of wearing the hair sets off their 

 foreheads to^advantage. The forehead is shaved off to the 

 crown, the space narrowing as it goes up ; then the back 

 hair is arranged into knobs of about ten rows. 



* The natives are quick to detect a peculiarity in a man, and give him 

 a name accordingly : the conquerors of a country try to forestall them 

 by selecting one for themselves. Susi states that when Tipo Tipo stood 

 over the spoiFtaken from Nsama, he gathered it closer together and said, 

 "Now I am Tipo Tipo," that is, " the gatherer together of wealth." Rumba 

 Kumba, of whom we shall hear much, took his name from the number of 

 captives he gathered, in his train under similar circumstances ; it might be 

 translated, " the collector of people." — Ed. 



