Here, as every where, when heat and moisture are combined, the people are very dark, but not quite black.

There is always a shade of brown in the most deeply colored.

I showed my watch and pocket compass, which are considered great curiosities; but, though the lady was called on by her husband to look, she would not be persuaded to approach near enough.
These people are more superstitious than any we had yet encountered; though still only building their village, they had found time to erect two little sheds at the chief dwelling in it, in which were placed two pots having charms in them.

When asked what medicine they contained, they replied, "Medicine for the Barimo;" but when I rose and looked into them, they said they were medicine for the game.

Here we saw the first evidence of the existence of idolatry in the remains of an old idol at a deserted village.