From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . BALEKA KNIFE AND SHEATH. first he was terribly alarmed, but soon gained confidence, and when I askedhim about game and elephant, he gave me most realistic representationsof them and of how they should be attacked. I failed to exactly definetheir status, but from the contempt in which they were held by theWaRuanda their local caste must be very low. The stamp of the brutewas so strong on them that I should place them lower in the human scalethan any other natives I have seen in Africa. Their type is quite distinctfrom th
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . BALEKA KNIFE AND SHEATH. first he was terribly alarmed, but soon gained confidence, and when I askedhim about game and elephant, he gave me most realistic representationsof them and of how they should be attacked. I failed to exactly definetheir status, but from the contempt in which they were held by theWaRuanda their local caste must be very low. The stamp of the brutewas so strong on them that I should place them lower in the human scalethan any other natives I have seen in Africa. Their type is quite distinctfrom the other peoples, and judging from the twenty to thirty specimensthat I saw, very consistent. Their face, body, and limbs are covered withwiry hair, and the hang of the long powerful arms, the slight stoop of thetrunk, and the hunted, vacant expression of the face made up a tout ensemblethat was a terrible pictorial proof of Darwinism. Two of them accompaniedme to Mushari. On the road they showed me the ease with which theycan make fire with their fire-sticks. CHAPTER XI
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