Our course now lay in the direction of 13 degrees.

The country we passed over was still of the same sandy nature; and after travelling about ten miles we made another lake.
STRANGER TRIBE.

NATIVE TOILETTE.
The natives here saw the recent signs of strange blacks and insisted upon my coming to a halt whilst they painted themselves and made sundry additions to their toilette.

I urged my remonstrances upon this head, but it was in vain.

They said that we should soon see some very pretty girls; that I might go on if I liked, but that they would not move until they had completed their preparations for meeting their fair friends.