The dress of the women is of a nondescript character; but they were not immodest.

They stood before us as perfectly unconscious of any indecorum as we could be with our clothes on.

But, while ignorant of their own deficiency, they could not maintain their gravity at the sight of the nudity of my men behind.

Much to the annoyance of my companions, the young girls laughed outright whenever their backs were turned to them.
After crossing the Lonaje, we came to some pretty villages, embowered, as the negro villages usually are, in bananas, shrubs, and manioc, and near the banks of the Leeba we formed our encampment in a nest of serpents, one of which bit one of our men, but the wound was harmless.
The people of the surrounding villages presented us with large quantities of food, in obedience to the mandate of Shinte, without expecting any equivalent.

One village had lately been transferred hither from the country of Matiamvo.