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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 12
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They profess to use the slaves for domestic purposes alone.
Some of these Mambari visited us while at Naliele.

They are of the Ambonda family, which inhabits the country southeast of Angola, and speak the Bunda dialect, which is of the same family of languages with the Barotse, Bayeiye, etc., or those black tribes comprehended under the general term Makalaka.

They plait their hair in three-fold cords, and lay them carefully down around the sides of the head.

They are quite as dark as the Barotse, but have among them a number of half-castes, with their peculiar yellow sickly hue.

On inquiring why they had fled on my approach to Linyanti, they let me know that they had a vivid idea of the customs of English cruisers on the coast.


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