Nsama is an old man, with head and face like those sculptured on the Assyrian monuments.
He has been a great conqueror in his time, and with bows and arrows was invincible.

He is said to have destroyed many native traders from Tanganyika, but twenty Arab guns made him flee from his own stockade, and caused a great sensation in the country.
He was much taken with my hair and woollen clothing; but his people, heedless of his scolding, so pressed upon us that we could not converse, and, after promising to send for me to talk during the night, our interview ended.

He promised guides to Moero, and sent us more provisions than we could carry; but showed so much distrust, that after all we went without his assistance.
Nsama's people are particularly handsome.

Many of the men have as beautiful heads as one could find in an assembly of Europeans.

All have very fine forms, with small hands and feet.
None of the West-coast ugliness, from which most of our ideas of the Negroes are derived, is here to be seen.