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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
The art of the coiffeur is better known here than in 
any portion of Africa east of lake Tanganika. The 
“ waterfall ” and “ back-hair ” styles are superb, and the 
'constructions are fastened with carved wooden or iron 
pins. Full dress includes a semicircle of finely plaited 
hair over the forehead painted red, ears well ochred, the 
rest of the hair drawn up taut at the back of the head, 
overlaid and secured by a cross-shaped flat board, or 
with a skeleton crown of iron ; the head is then covered 
with a neatly tasselled and plaited grass-cloth, like a 
lady’s breakfast-cap, to protect it from dust. In order 
to protect such an elaborate construction from being 
disordered, they carry a small head-rest of wood stuck 
iu the girdle. 
Their mode of salutation is as follows : — 
A man appears before a party seated ; he bends, takes 
up a handful of earth or sand with his right hand, and 
throws a little into his left — the left hand rubs the sand 
or earth over the right elbow and the right side of the 
stomach, while the right hand performs the same opera- 
tion for the left parts of the body, the mouth meanwhile 
uttering rapidly words of salutation. To his inferiors, 
however, the new-comer slaps his hand several times, 
and after each slap lightly taps the region of his heart. 
Kasenge Island is a small island with a grassy cone 
rising from its centre. It is w T ell-cultivated, and grows 
papaws, pomegranates, lemons, and sweet limes, having 
been favoured for a long period by Arabs, when their 
intercourse with the western regions was but beginning. 
Between the lately severed promontory of Katenga, 
in Goma, which is now a large island, and Mtowa, the 
southern end of the bay, there is quite a cluster of 
islets, of which the largest are Kirindi, Kivizi, and 
Kavala. 
When we have passed the northern point of Katenga 
Island we behold the Goma mountains in an apparently 
unbroken range of vast height and excessive steepness, 
and lengths of steep and cliffy slope. But as w T e sail on 
to the northward, we observe that from Katenga we 
saw only the profile or the shoulders of great lofty 
