_A._ Yambo (pronounced Dyambo) or Hali gáná?—The state! _B._ Yambo Sáná—My state is very (good). _A._ Siyambo (or amongst the Arabized Wasawahíli, Marhabá)—Right welcome! _B._ Hast thou eaten and slept? _A._ I have made my reverential bow! _B._ Yambo? _A._ Siyambo Sáná! _B._ Like unto gold? _A._ Like unto gold! _B._ Like unto coral? _A._ Like unto coral! _B._ Like unto pearl? _A._ Like unto pearl! _B._ The happiness—Kua-heri! (farewell!). _A._ In happiness let us meet, if Allah please! _B._ Hem! _A._ Hem! (drawn out as long as possible). The fact is they are going about ‘Ku amkía,’ to salute their friends, and to waste time by running from house to house. Even freemen generally begin their mornings thus, and idle through the working hours. The males tie, for only garb, a yard of cotton round the waist, and let it fall to the knees; bead necklaces and similar trash complete the costume. Like all negroes they will wear, if possible, the shock-head of wool, which is not pierceable by power of any sun; and they gradually unclothe down to the feet, which, requiring most defence, are the least defended—‘Fashion’ must account for the anomaly. To the initiated eye the tattoo distinguishes the vast confusion of races. The variety of national and tribal marks, the stars, raised lumps and scars, the beauty-slashes and carved patterns, further diversified by the effects of pelagra, psoris, and small-pox, is a Chinese puzzle to the new-comer. Domestic slaves, bearing their burdens on the head, not on the shoulder, are known by a comparatively civilized aspect. They copy their masters, and strangers remark that the countenance is cheerful and not destitute of intelligence. The Bozals, or freshly-trapped chattels, are far more original and interesting. See those Nyassa-men, with their teeth filed to represent the cat or the crocodile, chaffing some old Shylock, an Arab dealer in human flesh and blood; or those wild Uzegura-men, with patterned skins and lower incisors knocked out, like the Shilluks to the west of the Nile, scowling evilly, and muttering curses at the Nakhuda (skipper) from Súr, the professional kidnapper of their kind.