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FISH-CATCHING. 
set for partridge, quail, &c. ; and if intended for soar- 
ing birds, the noose is laid on the ground horizontally. 
The animals are struck with spears and killed, and are 
eaten by all ; while the tendons are made into bow- 
strings, the horns used as charms, and the skins rudely 
dressed for wear. 
Fish are rarely met with. On the coast, women 
standing in a circle up to their waists in the sea use 
their cloths as nets, and encircle small fish. Stake- 
nets in the form of the letter U, turned in at the apices, 
were seen. In the interior, upon the clear, gravel- 
bottomed river M'gazee, a party of fishers were seen 
wading down the stream, the men leading with hand- 
nets, while boys in their rear thrust spears into the 
holes in the banks. A number of slimy-looking fish, 
18 to 20 inches long, had been caught, and were slung 
by their heads to a cord tied round the waist, sur- 
rounding the wearer like a Highland kilt. 
The four native races were as follows: — 
I. The Wazaramo. — A smart, dressy (though nearly 
naked), well -to -do -looking people, with a most self- 
possessed air, and fond of ornaments in beads, sea- 
shells, or tin. Their heads are covered with wool, 
elongated with bark fibre into hanks, and their bodies 
smeared with an oily pomade of red clay, which soon 
soils their only covering — a cloth wrapped round the 
loins. The dress of the women is slightly longer, but 
they leave the neck and chest uncovered. Their arms 
are spears, and bows and arrows, with a few flint-guns. 
As they do not allow strangers to camp within their 
villages, we saw few houses, but those into which we 
were admitted were very tidy, with mud-and- wattle 
walls and thatched roofs. The appearance of these 
