They promise everything and do nothing; but for my excessive weakness we should go on, but we wait for a recovery of strength.
As people they are greatly reduced in numbers by the Mazitu, who carried off very large numbers of the women, boys, girls, and children.

They train or like to see the young men arrayed as Mazitu, but it would be more profitable if they kept them to agriculture.

They are all excessively polite.

The clapping of hands on meeting is something excessive, and then the string of salutations that accompany it would please the most fastidious Frenchman.

It implies real politeness, for in marching with them they always remove branches out of the path, and indicate stones or stumps in it carefully to a stranger, yet we cannot prevail on them to lend carriers to examine the Lake or to sell goats, of which, however, they have very few, and all on one island.
The Lake discharges its water north-westward or rather nor-north-westwards.