They sang with all their might, though with but little music in the strain.

Women sprinkled grain on their heads as wishes for plenty.[54] Nsama is said to be waiting for the Arabs in his new stockade.

It is impossible to ascertain exactly who is to blame in this matter, for I hear one side only; but the fact of the chiefs in this part of the country turning out so readily to punish his breach of public law, and no remonstrance coming from him, makes me suspect that Nsama is the guilty party.

If he had been innocent he certainly would have sent to ask the Bulungu, or Baeulungu, why they had attacked his people without cause.
[Here is an entry concerning the tribe living far to the East.] The Wasongo seem much like Zulus; they go naked, and have prodigious numbers of cattle, which occupy the same huts with their owners.

Oxen two shukahs each; plenty of milk.