They make a funnel of branches of trees, and line it with grass rope, twisted round until it is, as it were, a beehive-roof inverted.
The ashes are put into water, in a calabash, and then it is allowed to percolate through the small hole in the bottom and through the grass.
When this water is evaporated in the sun, it yields sufficient salt to form a relish with food.

The women and children fled with precipitation, but we sat down at a distance, and allowed the man time to gain courage enough to speak.

He, however, trembled excessively at the apparition before him; but when we explained that our object was to hunt game, and not men, he became calm, and called back his wives.

We soon afterward came to another party on the same errand with ourselves.

The man had a bow about six feet long, and iron-headed arrows about thirty inches in length; he had also wooden arrows neatly barbed, to shoot in cases where he might not be quite certain of recovering them again.