As we sat by the fire, the embassadors communicated their thoughts freely respecting the customs of their race.

When a chief dies, a number of servants are slaughtered with him to form his company in the other world.

The Barotse followed the same custom, and this and other usages show them to be genuine negroes, though neither they nor the Balonda resemble closely the typical form of that people.

Quendende said if he were present on these occasions he would hide his people, so that they might not be slaughtered.

As we go north, the people become more bloodily superstitious.
We were assured that if the late Matiamvo took a fancy to any thing, such, for instance, as my watch-chain, which was of silver wire, and was a great curiosity, as they had never seen metal plaited before, he would order a whole village to be brought up to buy it from a stranger.