There were several of these Ajawa here again, and on our arrival they proposed to Katosa that they should leave; but he replied that they need not be afraid of us.

They had red beads strung so thickly on their hair that at a little distance they appeared to have on red caps.

It is curious that the taste for red hair should be so general among the Africans here and further north; in the south black mica, called _Sebilo_, and even soot are used to deepen the colour of the hair; here many smear the head with red-ochre, others plait the inner bark of a tree stained red into it; and a red powder called _Mukuru_ is employed, which some say is obtained from the ground, and others from the roots of a tree.
It having been doubted whether sugar-cane is indigenous to this country or not, we employed Katosa to procure the two varieties commonly cultivated, with the intention of conveying them to Johanna.

One is yellow, and the other, like what we observed in the Barotse Valley, is variegated with dark red and yellow patches, or all red.

We have seen it "arrow," or blossom.