. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . is of the head or a row of knobs in the same position,into one of which an ostrich-feather is jauntily stuck. Ifengaged in herding cattle, or other avocations near hisvillage, he wears no clothes unless it be a necklace or anarmlet cut out of an elephants tusk ; but if on his travels,he may have a single garment of dirty cloth to enhancehis dignity. He carries only a spear, or perhaps two, onebeing long and leaf-bladed, the other light with a verynarrow head, bearing numerous recurved barbs. Thelatter is, I t
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . is of the head or a row of knobs in the same position,into one of which an ostrich-feather is jauntily stuck. Ifengaged in herding cattle, or other avocations near hisvillage, he wears no clothes unless it be a necklace or anarmlet cut out of an elephants tusk ; but if on his travels,he may have a single garment of dirty cloth to enhancehis dignity. He carries only a spear, or perhaps two, onebeing long and leaf-bladed, the other light with a verynarrow head, bearing numerous recurved barbs. Thelatter is, I think, generally used for spearing fish or smallgame. It is rarely that they can be induced to sell thesespears, even for the most tempting barter. If a personof consequence, he perhaps carries a curious short stickwith a pair of wings at one end, fashioned out of fishesskin. This has the appearance of Mercurys wand, andin fact might be the origin of that symbol. On nearinga village a deputation of such good-natured giants willprobably meet you outside the zareba, and invite you to. eg a oa u a < THE WHITE NILE 81 be seated; but a European cannot imitate their attitude,which is to sit flat down on to one foot, not crouching onthe heels as a Somali does, but using the foot as a illustration opposite this page shows what I mean. Then milk will be called for, and coy damsels willbring it, both fresh and sour—the latter very refreshing,—in gourds. If you enter the karia or village, the women,who wear a waist-cloth—at least, the married ones do so—will generally retire to their huts, as they are rather shy,but a few may be seen pounding doura with a heavy pole,or some such occupation which cannot be children peer round the corners of the they have any terrors, they are inspired by the camera,not the man. They are less black than their parents, andhere again I may quote Maundeville, who noticed that inEthiopia when the children
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