The Balonda in this quarter are much more agreeable-looking than any of the inhabitants nearer the coast.

The women allow their teeth to remain in their beautifully white state, and would be comely but for the custom of inserting pieces of reed into the cartilage of the nose.

They seem generally to be in good spirits, and spend their time in everlasting talk, funeral ceremonies, and marriages.

This flow of animal spirits must be one reason why they are such an indestructible race.

The habitual influence on their minds of the agency of unseen spirits may have a tendency in the same direction, by preserving the mental quietude of a kind of fatalism.
We were forced to prepay our guide and his father too, and he went but one day, although he promised to go with us to Katema.