They are thus the Quakers of the body politic in Africa.
A long time after the period of our visit, the chief of the Lake, thinking to make soldiers of them, took the trouble to furnish them with shields.

"Ah! we never had these before; that is the reason we have always succumbed.

Now we will fight." But a marauding party came from the Makololo, and our "Friends" at once paddled quickly, night and day, down the Zouga, never daring to look behind them till they reached the end of the river, at the point where we first saw it.
The canoes of these inland sailors are truly primitive craft: they are hollowed out of the trunks of single trees by means of iron adzes; and if the tree has a bend, so has the canoe.

I liked the frank and manly bearing of these men, and, instead of sitting in the wagon, preferred a seat in one of the canoes.

I found they regarded their rude vessels as the Arab does his camel.