The only idle time I observe here is in the mornings about seven o'clock, when all come and sit to catch the first rays of the sun as he comes over our clump of trees, but even that time is often taken as an opportunity for stringing beads.
I hear that some of Nsama's people crossed the Lovu at Karambo to plunder, in retaliation for what they have suffered, and the people there were afraid to fish, lest they should be caught by them at a distance from their stockades.
The Baeulungu men are in general tall and well formed, they use bows over six feet in length, and but little bent.

The facial angle is as good in most cases as in Europeans, and they have certainly as little of the "lark-heel" as whites.

One or two of the under front teeth are generally knocked out in women, and also in men.
_14th July, 1867._--Syde added to his other presents some more beads: all have been very kind, which I attribute in a great measure to Seyed Majid's letter.

Hamees crossed the Lovu to-day at a fordable spot.

The people on the other side refused to go with a message to Nsama, so Hamees had to go and compel them by destroying their stockade.