The Arab and the African; . dshock of hair, plaited it up into rows of little pig-tails, deftly weaving narrow bands of tough driedgrass in each little tail, and finishing off by tying alltogether into one large tail, the end of which heneatly bound round with one or two dozen turns ofthe dried grass-bands. This hair-plaiting is such acomplicated matter, and entails so much fine work,that a man cannot do it for himself, and so eachnative is dependent on his neighbour for his with the advantage which position gives themin working upon each others heads, it takes two orthree days to
The Arab and the African; . dshock of hair, plaited it up into rows of little pig-tails, deftly weaving narrow bands of tough driedgrass in each little tail, and finishing off by tying alltogether into one large tail, the end of which heneatly bound round with one or two dozen turns ofthe dried grass-bands. This hair-plaiting is such acomplicated matter, and entails so much fine work,that a man cannot do it for himself, and so eachnative is dependent on his neighbour for his with the advantage which position gives themin working upon each others heads, it takes two orthree days to finish off one head in really correct my way to my house I met two Arabs, whowere coming up from the camp, bringing with them acheap Winchester repeating-rifle which would notwork, and which they wished me to mend. This Iwas unable to do, or to give them a new key for thelock of a box, of which they had lost the proper were much disappointed, as they had beencounting for days on getting all put right, when. Medical Work i 19 once they arrived at the station where the English-man hved. Then they asked me to take charge of aload of cloth, which they were hoping the chief ofthe village would recover for them from a runawayporter, who had deserted a few miles from theirpresent camp. This I willingly agreed to do, anda few days later the cloth was brought to me by thechief, who had caught the runaway in the meantime,and secured his spoil. This business transacted, Iwent down with them to the camp to see a sickArab, who was suffering from an abscess in the foot,which had made the long daily marches almostunbearable to him. A timely incision with the lancetgave him immediate relief, to his great delight, andI told him to send up to the house for some dress-ings for his foot, for use on the march during thenext few days. The dressing of a few ulcers andthe extraction of a tooth completed my laboursamongst them. They had but recently started fromthe coast, so that not
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