. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. f above his hat was a narrow cylinder of closely-plaited reeds; it was orna-mented with three layers of red parrots feathers, and crowned witha plume of the same; there was no brim, but a copper crescent projectedirom the front like the vizor of a Norman helmet. The cartilage ofMunzas ears was pierced, and copper bars as thick as the finger insertedin the cavities.
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. f above his hat was a narrow cylinder of closely-plaited reeds; it was orna-mented with three layers of red parrots feathers, and crowned witha plume of the same; there was no brim, but a copper crescent projectedirom the front like the vizor of a Norman helmet. The cartilage ofMunzas ears was pierced, and copper bars as thick as the finger insertedin the cavities. His whole body was smeared with a native unguent ofpowdered red cane-wood. His single garment was like that universallyworn in the country, being a large piece of fig-bark dyed with the sameunguent as his skin, and falling in folds about his body. Eound thongsof buffalo-hide, with heavy copper balls attached to the ends, werefastened round the waist in a large knot, and held the coat like a THE MONBUTTU. 589 girdle. Around his neck liung a copper ornament, and on his arms werependant cylinders, bound with rings. Just below the knee were threecirclets of hippopotamus hide, tipped with copper. As a sign of authority. KING JIUNZA IN FULL DKESS. IMunza carried a sickle-shaped weapon of pure copper. His face was inpome respe ts not very negro-Uke, telling of mixture with Hamitic andI S90 THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA. Cannibalism. perhaps Semitic elements. His jaws were not protruding, but almostvertically under his forehead; but his lips were thick and prominent, amarked contrast to his straight Caucasian nose. His wives were dressedlike other Monbuttu women, in nothing but a pattern painted in black,showing up markedly upon their bright yellow skins. They wore hugechignons, and very few ornaments. The Monbuttu are great cannibals, and Schweinfurth saw many skulls and portions of skeletons there, belonging to people south of them, captured in raids. Many had been undoubtedly boiled in
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