salt, flesh, tobacco, etc.,
from Bangalas. Their clothing consists of pieces of skin, hung
loosely from the girdle in front and behind. They plait their hair
fantastically. We saw some women coming with their hair woven into the
form of a European hat, and it was only by a closer inspection that its
nature was detected. Others had it arranged in tufts, with a threefold
cord along the ridge of each tuft; while others, again, follow the
ancient Egyptian fashion, having the whole mass of wool plaited into
cords, all hanging down as far as the shoulders. This mode, with the
somewhat Egyptian cast of countenance in other parts of Londa, reminded
me strongly of the paintings of that nation in the British Museum.

We had now rain every day, and the sky seldom presented that cloudless
aspect and clear blue so common in the dry lands of the south. The
heavens are often overcast by large white motionless masses, which stand
for hours in the same position, and the intervening spaces are filled
with a milk-and-water-looking haze. Notwithstanding these unfavorable
circumstances, I obtained good observations for the longitude of this
important point on both sides of the Quango, and found the river running
in 9d 50' S. lat., 18d 33' E. long.

On proceeding to our former station near Sansawe's village, he ran to
meet us with wonderful urbanity, asking if we had seen Moene Put, king
of the white men (or Portuguese); and added, on parting, that he would
come to receive his dues in the evening. I replied that, as he had
treated us so scurvily, even forbidding his people to sell us any food,
if he did not bring us a fowl and some eggs as part of his duty as a
chief, he should receive no present from me. When he came, it was in the
usual Londa way of showing the exalted position he occupies, mounted on
the shoulders of his spokesman, as schoolboys sometimes do in England,
and as was represented to have been the case in the southern islands
when Captain Cook visited them. My companions, amused at his idea of
dignity, greeted him with a hearty laugh. He visited the native traders
first, and then came to me with two cocks as a present. I spoke to him
about the impolicy of treatment we had received at his hands, and quoted
the example of the Bangalas, who had been conquered by the Portuguese,
for their extortionate demands of payment for firewood, grass, water,
etc., and concluded by denying his right to any payment for simply
passing through