• The March to Banza Nkulu. 279 • 
bells) defiled before us, crowding round three 
umbrellas, trade-articles in the last stage of “ seedi¬ 
ness.” These comforts protected from the sun, 
which was deep hid behind a purple nimbus, an 
equal number of great men in absurd red night¬ 
caps or old felt wideawakes, shirts of coloured 
cotton, and second-hand waistcoats of silk or satin. 
JINKOMBA. 
The only signs of luxury were here and there a 
well-carved ebony stick, and a gunstock resplen¬ 
dent with brass tacks. All sat down in a semi¬ 
circle before us, six or seven deep in front and 
four or five at the sides : the women and children 
took their places in the rear, and one of them 
fondled a prick-eared cur with an attempt at a 
ribbon round its neck. 
