. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . rdly entered the villagewhen the good chief came to meet me with thirteenwomen, and courteously insisted that I should take themfor wives and cooks. Of course 1 declined, but the chiefinsisted that they should follow me, with the other sixty-four, wherever I traveled in the Apingi country. The way these simple people worked their i)ottery wasvery primitive. They would work and pound the claytill it was thoroughly mixed, and every particle of it veryfine. Then they would mould it into the s
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . rdly entered the villagewhen the good chief came to meet me with thirteenwomen, and courteously insisted that I should take themfor wives and cooks. Of course 1 declined, but the chiefinsisted that they should follow me, with the other sixty-four, wherever I traveled in the Apingi country. The way these simple people worked their i)ottery wasvery primitive. They would work and pound the claytill it was thoroughly mixed, and every particle of it veryfine. Then they would mould it into the shape of tlievases or pots they wanted to have, and, when these hadbeen fashioned and finislied exactly as they wished, theywould put tliem in tlie shade under a veranda or hardened a little they are gradually exposed tothe sun till they are (juitc liard, and tlien they are ])aketl APINOI DAINTIES. Y3 over a fire. I i!;ive you the sliape of these vases in theannexed engraving. I found tliat among all the tribesthey M^ere of the same shape. The cannibals made pot-tery exactly as these >KIN(i-POT. - WATEU-JAK. , The large water-jngs are the most difficult to manu-facture, and are rather fragile. They have to make aframe of wicker-work, upon which they lay the are used extensively for water-vessels. I was pleased to find that many of the Apingi villageshad remained long at the same place; for the Apingi, un-like almost all the tribes that surround them, do not feelthe necessity of moving their village after a death ortwo. The people would show me trees bearing berriesor fruits in tlie shape of an olive, which had often beenplanted by their fathers, or by themselves when ovation after ovation kept following me as I came tovillage after village. I was a real king, and was treat-ed as such. Feast after feast was given me by the chiefs,and such queer bills of fare as we had ! Such dainties ascame upon the table ! AVliy, there we
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