EARLY MORNING SOUNDS. 
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In a Wezee village there are few sounds to disturb 
one's night rest : the traveller's horn, and the reply to 
it from a neighbouring village, an accidental alarm, 
the chirping of crickets, and the cry from a sick child, 
however, occasionally broke upon the stillness of our 
nights. Waking early, the first sounds we heard were 
the crowing of cocks, the impatient lowing of cows, 
the bleating of calves, and the chirping of sparrows 
and a few other unmusical birds. The pestle and mor- 
tar shelling corn would soon after be heard, or the 
cooing of wild pigeons in the grove of palms. The 
huts were shaped like corn-stacks, supported by bare 
poles, 1 5 feet high, and 1 5 to 1 8 feet in diameter ; some- 
times their grass roofs would be protected from sparks 
by " michans," or frames of Indian-corn stalks ; there 
were no carpets ; all of them were unswept, and dark 
as the hold of a ship. A few earthen jars, made like 
the Indian "gurrah," for boiling vegetables or their 
stirabout, tattered skins, an old bow and arrow, some 
cups of grass, some gourds, perhaps a stool, constituted 
the whole of the furniture. Grain was housed in 
bandboxes of bark, and goats or calves had free access 
over the house. The goat-skins worn by the Usagara 
natives differed from their neighbours in Unyanyembe, 
being neatly dressed, so as to leave an edging of fur 
upon them. The cotton-cloth of the country, or a 
piece of soiled calico, generally covered the loins of the 
women. We saw here a man wearing the skin of a 
new antelope, the Nzoe, afterwards discovered in the 
Karague Lake. 
A description of one of the sultans will suffice to 
give a general impression of the appearance, manners, 
customs, &c, of the three Wezee clans we had passed 
