On the opposite bank of the river they had left their wives and several children, with whom they frequently discoursed; and we observed that these last manifested neither suspicion or uneasiness of our designs towards their friends.
Having refreshed ourselves, we found leisure to enter into conversation with them.

It could not be expected that they should differ materially from the tribes with whom we were acquainted.

The same manners and pursuits, the same amusements, the same levity and fickleness, undoubtedly characterised them.

What we were able to learn from them was that they depend but little on fish, as the river yields only mullets, and that their principal support is derived from small animals which they kill, and some roots (a species of wild yam chiefly) which they dig out of the earth.

If we rightly understood them, each man possesses two wives.