some might imagine; for a tree was growing in a horizontal position
across part of the stream, and, there being no want of the tough
climbing plants which admit of being knitted like ropes, Senhor P. soon
constructed a bridge. The Loajima was here about twenty-five yards wide,
but very much deeper than where I had crossed before on the shoulders of
Mashauana. The last rain of this season had fallen on the 28th, and
had suddenly been followed by a great decrease of the temperature. The
people in these parts seemed more slender in form, and their color a
lighter olive, than any we had hitherto met. The mode of dressing the
great masses of woolly hair which lay upon their shoulders, together
with their general features, again reminded me of the ancient Egyptians.
Several were seen with the upward inclination of the outer angles of
the eye, but this was not general. A few of the ladies adopt a curious
custom of attaching the hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving
it somewhat the appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin
(wood-cut No. 1*). Some have a small hoop behind that represented in the
wood-cut. Others wear an ornament of woven hair and hide adorned with
beads. The hair of the tails of buffaloes, which are to be found farther
east, is sometimes added. This is represented in No. 2. While others,
as in No. 3, weave their own hair on pieces of hide into the form
of buffalo horns; or, as in No. 4, make a single horn in front. The
features given are frequently met with, but they are by no means
universal. Many tattoo their bodies by inserting some black substance
beneath the skin, which leaves an elevated cicatrix about half an inch
long: these are made in the form of stars, and other figures of no
particular beauty.

* Unfortunately these wood-cuts can not be represented in this
ASCII text.

No. 1 appears like a wheel with spokes of hair
connecting it to the head.

No. 2 appears somewhat like a tiara sloped forward, as the bow
of a ship.

No. 3 appears like gently curving horns. There is a part in
the middle, and the hair, on leather frames, curls outward and
upward at the temples.

No. 4 is likewise, but the single horn curves outward and
upward from the forehead--it is labelled "A Young Man's
Fashion". Except for No. 1, all are represented as having the
rest of their hair hanging in braids around the sides and
back. All of the faces, as Livingstone a