These fringes are about six or eight inches long.

The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons.

The younger girls wear the waist-belt exhibited in the woodcut, ornamented with shells, and have the fringes only in front.
Marauding parties of Batoka, calling themselves Makololo, have for some time had a wholesome dread of Sinamane's "long spears." Before going to Tette our Batoka friend, Masakasa, was one of a party that came to steal some of the young women; but Sinamane, to their utter astonishment, attacked them so furiously that the survivors barely escaped with their lives.

Masakasa had to flee so fast that he threw away his shield, his spear, and his clothes, and returned home a wiser and a sadder man.
Sinamane's people cultivate large quantities of tobacco, which they manufacture into balls for the Makololo market.

Twenty balls, weighing about three-quarters of a pound each, are sold for a hoe.