"The tattoo or tembo of the Matambwée, or Upper Makoudée, very much resembles the drawings of the old Egyptians: wavy lines, such as the ancients made to signify water, trees, and gardens enclosed in squares, seem to have been meant of old for the inhabitants who lived on the Rovuma, and cultivated also. The son takes the tattoo of his father, and thus it has been perpetuated, though the meaning now appears lost."

And below is given a woodcut of this tattoo of Matambwée, and a most interesting and curious thing it is. Beneath is a sort of ground of wavy and other lines, above which are, first, an almost exact copy of the Jewish seven-branched candle-stick as represented on teh arch of Titus; to the right of which is a chalice with corporas cloth, and to the left a cross; but perhaps the most curious circumstance of all is that Livingstone himself does not appear to have noticed the significance of these tattoo marks.

J. C. J.