. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. No. 1. A Londa ladys mode of wearing the hair. shoulders, together with their general features, again remindedme of the ancient Egyptians. Several were seen with the upwardinclination of the outer angles of the eyes, but this was notgeneral. A few of the ladies adopt a curious custom of attachingthe hair to a hoop which enci
. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. No. 1. A Londa ladys mode of wearing the hair. shoulders, together with their general features, again remindedme of the ancient Egyptians. Several were seen with the upwardinclination of the outer angles of the eyes, but this was notgeneral. A few of the ladies adopt a curious custom of attachingthe hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving it somewhatthe appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin (wood-cut No. 1). Some have a small hoop behind that represented inthe woodcut. Others wear an ornament of woven hair and hideadorned with beads. The hair of the tails of buffaloes, whichare to be found further east, is sometimes added. This is 2 G 450 MODES OF DRESSING THE HAIR. Chap. XXIT, represented in No. 2. While others, as in No. 3, weave theirown hair on pieces of hide into the form of buffalo-horns, or,. as in No. 4, make a single horn in front. The features givenare frequently met with, but they are by no means tattoo their bodies by inserting some . black substance
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