296 The Yellala of the Congo. 
baked clay. The people when smoking affect the 
bunched shoulders, the deep inhalation, and the 
loud and body-shaking bark, which seems inse¬ 
parable from the enjoyment of this stimulant. - I 
have used it for months together, and my conclu¬ 
sion is, that mostly the cough is an affectation. 
Tobacco is smoked in the usual heavy clay pipes, 
with long mouthpieces of soft wood, quite as 
civilized as the best European. “ Progress” seems 
unknown to the pipe; the most advanced nations 
are somewhat behind the barbarians, and in the 
matter of snuff the Tupi or Brazilian savage has 
never been rivalled. 
The greater part of the vendors seemed to be 
women, of the buyers men; there was more dif¬ 
ference of appearance than in any European fair, 
and the population about Nkulu seemed to be a 
very mixed race. Some were ultra-negro, of the 
dead dull-black type, prognathous and long¬ 
headed like apes; others were of the red variety, 
with hair and eyes of a brownish tinge, and a few 
had features which if whitewashed could hardly be 
distinguished from Europeans. The tattoo was 
remarkable as amongst the tribes of the lower 
Zambeze. 1 There were waistcoats, epaulettes, 
braces and cross-belts of huge welts, and raised 
1 “ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,” vol. iii. p. 
206, 1833. 
