The village was surrounded by a dense hedge of bamboo and a species of bushy fig that loves edges of water-bearing streams: it is not found where the moisture is not perennial.

Kande is a fine tall smith; I asked him if he knew his antecedents; he said he had been bought by Babisa at Chipeta, and left at Chilunda's, and therefore belonged to no one.

Two Waiyau now volunteered to go on with us, and as they declared their masters were killed by the Mazitu, and Kande seemed to confirm them, we let them join.

In general, runaway slaves are bad characters, but these two seem good men, and we want them to fill up our complement: another volunteer we employ as goatherd.
A continuous tap-tapping in the villages shows that bark cloth is being made.

The bark, on being removed from the-tree, is steeped in water, or in a black muddy hole, till the outer of the two inner barks can be separated, then commences the tapping with a mallet to separate and soften the fibres.