11 deg.

18' 10" S.
_11th June, 1866._--Our carriers refuse to go further, because they say that they fear being captured here on their return.
_12th June, 1866._--I paid off the carriers, and wait for a set from this.

A respectable man, called Makoloya, or Impande, visited me, and wished to ask some questions as to where I was going, and how long I should be away.

He had heard from a man who came from Ibo, or Wibo, about the Bible, a large book which was consulted.
[Illustration: Tattoo of Matambwe.] _13th June, 1866._--Makoloya brought his wife and a little corn, and says that his father told him that there is a God, but nothing more.
The marks on their foreheads and bodies are meant only to give beauty in the dance, they seem a sort of heraldic ornament, for they can at once tell by his tattoo to what tribe or portion of tribe a man belongs.

The tattoo or tembo of the Matambwe and Upper Makonde very much resembles the drawings of the old Egyptians; wavy lines, such as the ancients made to signify water, trees and gardens enclosed in squares, seem to have been meant of old for the inhabitants who lived on the Rovuma, and cultivated also, the son takes the tattoo of his father, and thus it has been perpetuated, though the meaning now appears lost.