in.] SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBES. 97 



In these people the negro type is strongly developed, their 

 heads are more woolly than the Bechuana tribes. They file 

 their teeth to a point; tattoo; treat their women with great 

 consideration, wear arms, and are very hospitable. The life 

 they lead is that of dreamy indolence. They have a great 

 dislike for the Makololo, not without reason ; and hate the 

 slave-trade. 



In manners they are inoffensive and very polite. They 

 have a singular mode of salutation by rubbing the face, arms, 

 and chest with ashes. When travellers appear among them, 

 they lend them the roofs of their houses for shelter, which are 

 moveable at pleasure. Their towns have straight streets, plan- 

 tations and square houses. Manioc is their staff of life ; but 

 they cultivate many valuable vegetable productions. They 

 have little dress, but no idea of immodesty. With them the 

 time is spent in marriage and funeral ceremonies, and ever- 

 lasting talk. In ability they are gifted, very teachable, but 

 lamentably ignorant. 



These are emphatically the black sheep of 

 mambari Africa. Dr Livingstone did not visit their 

 country, but met with, and heard of them too 

 often in the prosecution of their accursed trade. What the 

 jackal is to the lion, so are these men to those fiends in the 

 white man's form — the European slave-dealers. In fact, the 

 slave-trade is almost entirely fed by them. They wander over 

 the interior and steal, purchase, or decoy away the natives, 

 taking them to the coast for sale. Evangelize these Mambari, 

 and get the Portuguese to prohibit their subjects from carry- 

 ing on this interior traffic, and, humanly speaking, you have 

 stopped the slave-trade, as far as central South Africa is con- 

 cerned, for these are the sole agents of its prosecution on land. 



These people reside near Bihe, inhabiting the country 

 south-east of Angola. They are of the Ambonda family, of 

 Makalala origin, as dark as the Barotse, and speak the Bunda 



