. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. 228 ACROSS AFRICA. [Chap. June, 1874. potatoes, and other articles of food for sale. They were chiefly women, the men being away on jom*neys ; for, like the Warua, of whom they are a branch, they are a traveling and trading race. The women wore their hair after the fashion of those at the entrance of the Lnknga, already described. Their ornaments consisted of coiled bracelets of brass wire, bangles of iron, brass, and copper round tlicir ankles, strings of large singo-m
. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. 228 ACROSS AFRICA. [Chap. June, 1874. potatoes, and other articles of food for sale. They were chiefly women, the men being away on jom*neys ; for, like the Warua, of whom they are a branch, they are a traveling and trading race. The women wore their hair after the fashion of those at the entrance of the Lnknga, already described. Their ornaments consisted of coiled bracelets of brass wire, bangles of iron, brass, and copper round tlicir ankles, strings of large singo-ma/.zi round their necks and waists, and a band of cowries, or small beads, bound around their heads. The upper part of the forehead was often painted in stripes of vermilion and black, which had not such an unpleasing effect as might be sup- posed. Round the waist was a piece of fringed grass-cloth, about eighteen inches deep, and open in front; but in the hia- tus they wore a narrow apron reaching to the knees, and frequently ornamented by lines of cowries or beads down the centre. The hoes used in this district are large and heavy, but their hatchets are the smallest and most useless I ever saw, the blade being only an inch and a half wide. Their arrows are, however, broad-head- ed, deeply barbed, and poisoned. All the men carry whistles, with which they sig- nal to each other on the road. Some "VVarua arrived while we were here, having dried fish and the scented oil of the mpafu-tree for sale; and it occurred to me as curious that, although the Tanganyika abounds in fish, the people dry only the small minnow-like " dagga," and are always ready to buy that brought a distance of a hundred and fifty miles or more by the Warua. After leaving Mekcto, we did not make another halt until the 16th of J line, when we reached the village of Fakwany wa, chief of Ubudjwa, one long march beyond Kwamrora Kasea. Streams without number were passed during this march. The princi
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