"Never Could Desire To Eat Any Thing Better" -
Young Herbage And Animals - Valley Of The Loembwe -
The White Man A
Hobgoblin - Specimen of Quarreling -
Eager Desire for Calico - Want of Clothing at Kawawa's -
Funeral Observances - Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa -
His
Impudent Demand - Unpleasant Parting - Kawawa tries to prevent
our crossing the River Kasai - Stratagem.
We made a little detour to the southward in order to get provisions
in a cheaper market. This led us along the rivulet called Tamba,
where we found the people, who had not been visited so frequently
by the slave-traders as the rest, rather timid and very civil.
It was agreeable to get again among the uncontaminated,
and to see the natives look at us without that air of superciliousness
which is so unpleasant and common in the beaten track.
The same olive color prevailed. They file their teeth to a point,
which makes the smile of the women frightful, as it reminds one
of the grin of an alligator. The inhabitants throughout this country
exhibit as great a variety of taste as appears on the surface of society
among ourselves. Many of the men are dandies; their shoulders are always wet
with the oil dropping from their lubricated hair, and every thing about them
is ornamented in one way or another. Some thrum a musical instrument
the livelong day, and, when they wake at night, proceed at once
to their musical performance. Many of these musicians are too poor
to have iron keys to their instrument, but make them of bamboo, and persevere,
though no one hears the music but themselves.
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