162 LEAVE THE ZAMBESI. CHAP. VI. 



out 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, and to perform certain ceremonies over 

 the fragments. The vanquished call upon their conquerors 

 to give them a portion also ; and, when this request is 

 complied with, they too perform the same ceremonies, and 

 lament over their dead comrade, after which the late com- 

 batants may visit each other in peace. Sometimes the 

 head of the slain is taken and buried in an ant-hill, till all 

 the flesh is gone ; and the lower jaw is then worn as a 

 trophy by the slayer ; but this we never saw, and the 

 foregoing information was obtained only through an 

 interpreter. 



We left the Zambesi at the mouth of the Zungwe or 

 Mozama or Dela rivulet, up which we proceeded, first in 

 a westerly and then in a north-westerly direction. The 

 Zungwe at this time had no water in its sandy channel 

 for the first eight or ten miles. Willows, however, grow 

 on the banks, and water soon began to appear in the 

 hollows ; and a few miles further up it was a fine flowing 

 stream deliciously cold. As in many other streams from 

 Chicova to near Sinamane shale and coal crop out in the 

 bank ; and here the large roots of stigmaria or its allied 

 plants were found. We followed the course of the 

 Zungwe to the foot of the Batoka highlands, up whose 

 steep and rugged sides of red and white quartz we climbed 

 till we attained an altitude of upwards of 3000 feet. Here, 

 on the cool and bracing heights, the exhilaration of mind 

 and body was delightful, as we looked back at the hollow 

 beneath covered with a hot sultry glare, not unpleasant 

 now that we were in the mild radiance above. We had 



