118 A Visit to Banza Chis alia. 
times the usual tariff. They consisted of fourteen 
red caps, as many “ sashes,” and fifty-two fathoms 
of cloth for the crew ; ten Pegas de lei or Chiloes 
for each interpreter, and two pieces for the canoes. 
I should have given four fathoms for each man 
and the same for each boat. The final scene was 
most gratifying to the African mind : I solemnly 
invested old Nessala with the grand cloak which 
covered his other finery ; grinning in the ecstasy of 
vanity, he allowed his subjects to turn him round 
and round, as one would a lay figure, yet with pro¬ 
found respect, and, lastly, he retired to charm his 
wives. 
This part of the negotiations ended with pre¬ 
senting some “ satin stripe ” and rum to the 
Nchinu and Manbuku Prata, and with shaking 
hands-—a dangerous operation. The people are 
cleanly ; they wash when rising, and before as 
well as after every meal; they are always bathing, 
yet from prince to pauper, from baby to grey 
beard, they are affected with a psora known by 
its Portuguese name, “ sarnas.” The Congo 
“fiddle” appears first between the articulations of 
the fingers, and bleaches the hands and wrists as 
if it were leprosy. Yet I did not see a single 
case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, 
the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the 
sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar 
and East Africa. From the extremities the 
