. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants . her character, or prevent her being afterwardsmarried. The wives are however never traffickedin this manner except to white men of considera-tion. The boys are taken from the mothers as soon asthey can walk, and the father sits the whole daywith them on a mat. The girls are entirely neg-lected by the father. Whenever any
. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants . her character, or prevent her being afterwardsmarried. The wives are however never traffickedin this manner except to white men of considera-tion. The boys are taken from the mothers as soon asthey can walk, and the father sits the whole daywith them on a mat. The girls are entirely neg-lected by the father. Whenever any thing brings a number of peopletogether, the men immediately light a fire and squatthemselves round it in the smoke; the men andboys together, the women remaining behind sepa-rate. The Jicus religiosa is planted in all the marketplaces, and is considered here, as it is in the East,a sacred tree; for our people having piled theirmuskets against one, and some of the points of thebayonets sticking into the bark, a great clamourwas raised until they were removed. The hoe is their only instrument of husbandry,and is made out of a piece of flat bar iron beat outand stuck into a handle from one to two ieei inlength, as in the following figures; 216 CAPTAIN TUCKEYS At Kincaya, in the valley of Bemba Macongo,we met with an Embomma slave merchant goinginto the interior for slaves. No information was tobe got from him respecting the river, pretendingthat he had never been up it. It is evident thesemerchants do not wish Europeans to penetrate intothe country, lest they should interfere with theirbusiness. Here the cicatrices or ornamental markson the bodies of both men and women were muchmore raised than in the lower parts of the women in particular had their chests and bellybelow the navel embossed in a manner that musthave cost them infinite pain, the way of effecting itbeing to seize the skin between the fore-finger andthumb, and scarify it longitudinally with a s
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