Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . ough thebushes for the first three miles. After this the road was more open, and we passed manylittle clumps of houses surrounded by durrha fields. I hadan opportunity of see-in(j manv of the Kerewomen. They are notas Q;ood lookino- as themen, but many of theyoung girls had grace-ful figures and attrac-tive features. Theywore a short leatherskirt, with occasionallya bib attached, andwere not disfio-ured inany way excepting bya few necklaces ofbeads, and brass bandsaround their arms. Their hair fell naturally
Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . ough thebushes for the first three miles. After this the road was more open, and we passed manylittle clumps of houses surrounded by durrha fields. I hadan opportunity of see-in(j manv of the Kerewomen. They are notas Q;ood lookino- as themen, but many of theyoung girls had grace-ful figures and attrac-tive features. Theywore a short leatherskirt, with occasionallya bib attached, andwere not disfio-ured inany way excepting bya few necklaces ofbeads, and brass bandsaround their arms. Their hair fell naturally down their backs, and was kept inplace by little bands of leather that encircled their of the Kere men twist their hair around a stick, thatpoints directly upward, or else forward over their mix their hair with clay, and form it into a hardcake in the shape of a cap; and into this mass is stuckfeathers, long reeds, or anything that comes to hand. Iwas surprised to find some of them wearing zinc disks sus-pended from their ears like the Dume. All of the Kere. KERE PILLOW AND BELLS FOR ANKLES. 3o8 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. have a remarkably sleek and well-fed appearance, owningmany sheep and goats, and raising enormous quantitiesof durrha. They vary their diet also by catching catfish in hand-netsfastened to a pole with a hoop at the end. Five largevillages belonging to these people were passed before wecame to the Buki, a tribe five miles north of last nights Buki are an offshoot of the Kere, and only numberabout six hundred individuals. Here we rested for aboutan hour under a large tree called hammer in Somali,while I took tiiiftn and made some observations with mytheodolite. There were many hammer trees in thiscountry, some of them sixty feet high, with enormousbranches reaching nearly to the ground, and with trunks sixfeet in diameter. They bear a green, bean-like fruit, which tastes likevinegar, and which is cooked by the natives wi
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