This is perhaps the most primitive form of mill, and anterior to that in oriental countries, where two women grind at one mill, and may have been that used by Sarah of old when she entertained the Angels.
On 2nd October we applied to Muazi for guides to take us straight down to Chinsamba's at Mosapo, and thus cut off an angle, which we should otherwise make, by going back to Kota-kota Bay.

He replied that his people knew the short way to Chinsamba's that we desired to go, but that they all were afraid to venture there, on account of the Zulus, or Mazitu.

We therefore started back on our old route, and, after three hours' march, found some Babisa in a village who promised to lead us to Chinsamba.
We meet with these keen traders everywhere.

They are easily known by a line of horizontal cicatrices, each half an inch long, down the middle of the forehead and chin.

They often wear the hair collected in a mass on the upper and back part of the head, while it is all shaven off the forehead and temples.