"No stealing of fowls or of men," said the chief: "Catch the thief and bring him to me, one who steals a person is a pig," said Mohamad.

Stealing, however, began on our side, a slave purloining a fowl, so they had good reason to enjoin honesty on us! They think that we have come to kill them: we light on them as if from another world: no letters come to tell who we are, or what we want.

We cannot conceive their state of isolation and helplessness, with nothing to trust to but their charms and idols--both being bits of wood.

I got a large beetle hung up before an idol in the idol house of a deserted and burned village; the guardian was there, but the village destroyed.
I presented the two brothers with two table cloths, four bunches of beads, and one string of neck-beads; they were well satisfied.
A wood here when burned emits a horrid faecal smell, and one would think the camp polluted if one fire was made of it.

I had a house built for me because the village huts are inconvenient, low in roof, and low doorways; the men build them, and help to cultivate the soil, but the women have to keep them well filled with firewood and supplied with water.