ly make themselves hideous by the means they adopt to render
themselves attractive. The _pelele_, or ornament for the upper lip, is
universally worn by the ladies; the most valuable is of pure tin,
hammered into the shape of a small dish; some are made of white quartz,
and give the wearer the appearance of having an inch or more of one of
Price's patent candles thrust through the lip, and projecting beyond the
tip of the nose.

In character, the Lake tribes are very much like other people; there are
decent men among them, while a good many are no better than they should
be. They are open-handed enough: if one of us, as was often the case,
went to see a net drawn, a fish was always offered. Sailing one day past
a number of men, who had just dragged their nets ashore, at one of the
fine fisheries at Pamalombe, we were hailed and asked to stop, and
received a liberal donation of beautiful fish. Arriving late one
afternoon at a small village on the lake, a number of the inhabitants
manned two canoes, took out their seine, dragged it, and made us a
present of the entire haul. The northern chief, Marenga, a tall handsome
man, with a fine aquiline nose, whom we found living in his stockade in a
forest about twenty miles north of the mountain Kowirwe, behaved like a
gentleman to us. His land extended from Dambo to the north of Makuza
hill. He was specially generous, and gave us bountiful presents of food
and beer. "Do they wear such things in your country?" he asked, pointing
to his iron bracelet, which was studded with copper, and highly prized.
The Doctor said he had never seen such in his country, whereupon Marenga
instantly took it off, and presented it to him, and his wife also did the
same with hers. On our return south from the mountains near the north
end of the lake, we reached Marenga's on the 7th October. When he could
not prevail upon us to forego the advantage of a fair wind for his
invitation to "spend the whole day drinking his beer, which was," he
said, "quite ready," he loaded us with provisions, all of which he sent
for before we gave him any present. In allusion to the boat's sail, his
people said that they had no Bazimo, or none worth having, seeing they
had never invented the like for them. The chief, Mankambira, likewise
treated us with kindness; but wherever the slave-trade is carried on, the
people are dishonest and uncivil; that invariably leaves a blight and a
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