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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
and as a means of civilization. The women of the 
upper ranks, and generally the rich, grease their bodies 
over with beef-suet, mixed with powdered lac, which 
gives the skin a vermilion lustre, and at the same time 
a most disgusting; smell. 
Among the Luinas, I observed a good many per- 
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LUCHAZE ARTICLES. 
1. Knife-sheath. 3. Wooden Bolster. 
2. Basket. 4. Bee-hive. 
cussion-muskets of English manufacture, conveyed 
thither by the traders from the South, and other flint 
ones, made in Belgium, obtained from the Portuguese 
at Benguella. The natives here, however, in contra¬ 
distinction to all the tribes I met with between the 
Western coast and the Zambesi, prefer percussion-guns, 
and there are even some who seek after rifles. They 
do not use cartridges, like the Bihenos and their 
immediate neighbours, but carry their powder loose in 
