Yaos, known by the three vertical slits in their cheeks; slim Nandi, with perforated lobes to their ears; ebony Kavirondo; Sudanese of an excellent quality; Wanyamwezi from the country between Tabora and Lake Tanganyika, the very tribe from whom the German Askaris are recruited, and all the dusky tribes that stretch far north to Lake Rudolph and the Nile.

An ancient temple in the centre stood, Where to his servant Nandi once appeared Great Siva, it is said, in human frame.

Read what Williams has to say (154): "Nandi, one of whose wives was pregnant, left her to dwell with a second.