From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . pegsin their lips, which as they grow older are madelarger and larger until they are the size of the palmof ones hand. This custom is terribly disfiguring,and in old women the lip often gives way, thetorn edges hanging down on each side. As aresult Musgum women are no longer bought asslaves at Dikoa, or at any of the Soudanese slavemarkets. On the 20th of January we reached the town ofMusgum, in which all the houses resemble bee-hives,and are built so close together that the streets ar
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . pegsin their lips, which as they grow older are madelarger and larger until they are the size of the palmof ones hand. This custom is terribly disfiguring,and in old women the lip often gives way, thetorn edges hanging down on each side. As aresult Musgum women are no longer bought asslaves at Dikoa, or at any of the Soudanese slavemarkets. On the 20th of January we reached the town ofMusgum, in which all the houses resemble bee-hives,and are built so close together that the streets areonly wide enough to allow one man to pass at a was the astonishment of these children of naturewhen I went from house to house, sketching theinterior and measuring the various contents. There are quantities of birds here, and at sunsetflocks of pelicans, golden-crested cranes, ducks, geese,and ibises might be seen returning home to their the plains and by the rivers we saw herons andmarabouts, so that on all sides there was twitteringand fluttering. The pink pelicans were a beautiful. s 3 E * E o s o ^ a5 >? S o ?8 8 => S3 THROUGH THE LAND OF THE MUSGUMS 127 sight as they wended their way across the deep bluesky. On the 22nd we set out on our return journey toKusseri in two large and four small canoes. Duringthe voyage we hoped to be able to shoot some grassantelopes (Adenota spec), which are here calledpallahs. Four hours after we had started we noticeda letter from Roder fastened to a post on the was short and to the point: Stop here, pallahs ! We scrambled up the steep bank and caught sightof a herd grazing on a wide, grassy plain. So we allthree took our guns, and set out to stalk them whileour tents were being pitched. We were not successful, and the next morningwe went further and soon came upon a large herd ofpallahs. We landed, and this time we had better Duke shot six, Schmidt three, whilst I missedtwo, and wounded two more.
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