900 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



natives from the interior also rub themselves over with a stinking nut some- 

 thing like an acorn, with a powerful smell like rotten onions. Angola is poor 

 in dyes, and the natives use only few. For red they use the fresh pulp envelop- 

 ing the seeds of the annatto; for yellow they employ yellow ginger. Cloths 

 are made black by rubbing them with charred ground-nuts reduced to a fine 

 paste. 



There is no danger, Mr. Monteiro says, in travelling over almost any part 

 of Angola, especially in those parts in the occupation of the Portuguese. The 

 natives are everywhere civil, if well treated. A knowledge of Portuguese is 

 almost essential, as, with the exception of some places on the Congo, and as far 

 south of it as Ambriz, where some of the natives speak English, a great num- 

 ber speak only Portuguese besides their own language. 



