Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . oing on. Even if one goes into a strange villagewhere not a soul has seen him before, it is not difficultto pick out the girls who have a love affair on hand ;they are oiled and painted and carry all the familyjewellery round their necks; red beads have beenimported in great quantities, and the girls, to makethemselves beautiful, wear several pounds weight roundtheir person. Not only so, but the love-sick maidensare unmercifully teased by their fellows ; one sees aknot of girls standing talking, and all of a sudden theybegin to laugh, the loved
Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . oing on. Even if one goes into a strange villagewhere not a soul has seen him before, it is not difficultto pick out the girls who have a love affair on hand ;they are oiled and painted and carry all the familyjewellery round their necks; red beads have beenimported in great quantities, and the girls, to makethemselves beautiful, wear several pounds weight roundtheir person. Not only so, but the love-sick maidensare unmercifully teased by their fellows ; one sees aknot of girls standing talking, and all of a sudden theybegin to laugh, the loved one excepted, and all run not infrequently happens that a man, in order tosecure his bride as soon as possible, will give himself asa pledge for the bride-money advanced by a wealthyman, and thus practically put himself in the positionof a slave—a great proof of devotion and self-sacrifice. [The information in these two chapters has beenderived from Mr. E. Tordays book, Camp and Trampin African Wilds, by kind permission of the author.]. A Well-kept Village The native on the left has bought a new garment and fez. showing he has adopted Moham-medanism. He is carrying a ladder of the kind used all over Africa for getting on to huts. Theman on the right is carrying a piece of sugar-cane. A flat stone for grinding rice is on the the tree the seed for next year is suspended to preserve it from rats and white ants. CHAPTER XIV MADAGASCAR : NATURES MUSEUM It is remarkable how little is known, except to compara-tively very few, of the great African island of Madagas-car, an island so rich in evidence of past life, bothanimal and vegetable, and so prolific of the was the home of the gigantic and now extinctaepyornis as it is to-day of the lemur and the compared with the vast continent against whichif nestles, it is difficult to believe that it is really onethousand miles long and more that three hundred mileswide, with an area of two hundred a
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