They follow no other occupation, but when their game is getting scanty at one spot they remove to some other part of the Loangwa, Zambesi, or Shire, and build temporary huts on an island, where their women cultivate patches: the flesh of the animals they kill is eagerly exchanged by the more settled people for grain.

They are not stingy, and are everywhere welcome guests.

I never heard of any fraud in dealing, or that they had been guilty of an outrage on the poorest: their chief characteristic is their courage.
Their hunting is the bravest thing I ever saw.

Each canoe is manned by two men; they are long light craft, scarcely half an inch in thickness, about eighteen inches beam, and from eighteen to twenty feet long.

They are formed for speed, and shaped somewhat like our racing boats.