We find them very liberal with their food: we give a cloth to the headman of the village where we pass the night, and he gives a goat, or at least cooked fowls and porridge, at night and morning.
[Illustration: Tattoo on Women.] We were invited by Gombwa in the afternoon to speak the same words to his people that we used to himself in the morning.

He nudged a boy to respond, which is considered polite, though he did it only with a rough hem! at the end of each sentence.

As for our general discourse we mention our relationship to our Father: His love to all His children--the guilt of selling any of His children--the consequence; _e.g._ it begets war, for they don't like to sell their own, and steal from other villagers, who retaliate.

Arabs and Waiyau invited into the country by their selling, foster feuds, and war and depopulation ensue.

We mention the Bible--future state--prayer: advise union, that they should unite as one family to expel enemies, who came first as slave-traders, and ended by leaving the country a wilderness.