which, being yet unfermented, was not intoxicating. It is in this state
called Liting or Makonde. Some of the men carry large shields of buffalo-
hide, and all are well supplied with heavy spears. The vicinity of the
villages is usually cleared and cultivated in large patches; but nowhere
can the country be said to be stocked with people. At every village
stands were erected, and piles of the native corn, still unthrashed,
placed upon them; some had been beaten out, put into oblong parcels made
of grass, and stacked in wooden frames.

We crossed several rivulets in our course, as the Mandora, the Lofia, the
Manzaia (with brackish water), the Rimbe, the Chibue, the Chezia, the
Chilola (containing fragments of coal), which did little more than mark
our progress. The island and rapid of Nakansalo, of which we had
formerly heard, were of no importance, the rapid being but half a mile
long, and only on one side of the island. The island Kaluzi marks one of
the numerous places where astronomical observations were made; Mozia, a
station where a volunteer poet left us; the island Mochenya, and Mpande
island, at the mouth of the Zungwe rivulet, where we left the Zambesi.

When favoured with the hospitality and company of the "Go-nakeds," we
tried to discover if nudity were the badge of a particular order among
the Bawe, but they could only refer to custom. Some among them had
always liked it for no reason in particular: shame seemed to lie dormant,
and the sense could not be aroused by our laughing and joking them on
their appearance. They evidently felt no less decent than we did with
our clothes on; but, whatever may be said in favour of nude statues, it
struck us that man, in a state of nature, is a most ungainly animal.
Could we see a number of the degraded of our own lower classes in like
guise, it is probable that, without the black colour which acts somehow
as a dress, they would look worse still.

In domestic contentions the Bawe are careful not to kill each other; but,
when one village goes to war with another, they are not so particular.
The victorious party are said to quarter one of the bodies of the enemies
they may have killed, and to perform certain ceremonies over the
fragments. The vanquished call upon their conquerors to give them a
portion also; and, when this request is complied with, they too perform
the same ceremonies, and lament over their dead comrade, after which the
late combatants may visi