This tribe is peculiar.
Its members eat no animal food, neither do they hanker after fire water or tobacco.
They do not believe in fighting, and yet at times they are compelled to resist by force of brute strength the onslaughts and invasions of their neighbors.
Their dwellings are the perfection of cleanliness; the domicile of each family is surrounded with a hedge of the almost impenetrable euphorbia, and the interior of the inclosure is a yard neatly plastered with a cement of ashes, cow dung and sand.
On this cleanly swept surface are one or more huts surrounded by granaries of neat wickerwork, thatched and resting upon raised platforms.
The huts have projecting roofs in order to afford a shade, and the entrance is usually about two feet high.
The men are well grown and rather refined.
Their dress is very limited, usually only an apron of leather—either a piece of cowhide or goatskin.
Tattoo marks or lines across their forehead denote their rank.
The chief has his forehead lined closely together, his assistants or deputies have less in number, while the ordinary members of the tribe have only two lines.