Ten years in Equatoria; . ; timid whenbrought into contact with strangers; handsome, having vigorouslimbs; swift runners, and handling the lance and bow with sur-prising skill. They do not form a political unity, properly socalled, but live under a patriarchal rule in villages, governed by achief, who has hereditary rights. Their dwellings are composedof straw huts, with conical roofs; they are large and scrupulouslyclean. The men cover themselves with a goat-skin fastened roundthe waist, but many go completely nude; the women, on the 30 TEN YEARS IN E QUA TORI A. contrary, when grown up, alwa
Ten years in Equatoria; . ; timid whenbrought into contact with strangers; handsome, having vigorouslimbs; swift runners, and handling the lance and bow with sur-prising skill. They do not form a political unity, properly socalled, but live under a patriarchal rule in villages, governed by achief, who has hereditary rights. Their dwellings are composedof straw huts, with conical roofs; they are large and scrupulouslyclean. The men cover themselves with a goat-skin fastened roundthe waist, but many go completely nude; the women, on the 30 TEN YEARS IN E QUA TORI A. contrary, when grown up, always wear two skins fastened to thewaist, which cover the body to the knee. At night they lie downupon a bed made of ashes, either in order to protect themselvesfrom the bites of the numerous mosquitoes, or to diminish the effectof the low temperature. This has a strange and surprising effect,and in the morning causes one to shudder at the sight of these longwhitened spectres. Their custom is to pierce their ears in several. GIKLS OF THE DINKA TRIBE. places, and to insert small iron rings ; the men wear ivory bracelets,and the women iron waistbands and anklets. As is the customamong very many other tribes, they extract two incisors from theirlower jaw ; they seldom eat meat, and absolutely refuse the flesh ofthe hippopotamus, crocodile, and rat, but in joreference feed onmilk and farinaceous food ; they drink beer, made of Indian millet;and a dish of wheaten flour mixed with butter, honey, and milk isdeservedly popular amongst them. They have no salt; butter ismade in a peculiar manner ; the milk, after standing, is put into agreat gourd (shell), the opening of which is closed and fastened up,and some one seated, as a rule, upon a little stool, shakes the shellwith both hands from right to left, beating it on the knees with auniform and systematical movement; the operation takes sometime, and the butter is separated from the milk in clots of greateror lesser size. As regards clea
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