seemed to have taken any trouble at all about her headdress. This, however, may have been owing to the fact that we saw only slaves — the free women and chief's wives being kept out of the way. The men wore festoons of fetishes suspended round their necks and waists, some of which, representing figures of men and women, were beautifully carved in ivory or wart hogs' teeth.

They all wore round their waists a piece of native cloth, woven from palm fibre, called madeba. They were armed with fairly powerful bows and arrows, the arrows being well made, barbed and tipped with iron, and coated with poison. This poison was not, however, invariably fatal, probably owning to the fact that, in common with most of the native poisons I have seen in the Congo Basin, it loses its virulence when not fresh. One of my men who had his