Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . is approaching a Latookatown by coming across a quantity of neglected human remains. The Latookas have not the least idea why they treat their dead in thissingular manner, nor why they make so strange a distinction between thebodies of warriors who have died the death of the brave and those wholiave simply died from disease, accident, or decay. Perhaps there is noother country where the bod
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . is approaching a Latookatown by coming across a quantity of neglected human remains. The Latookas have not the least idea why they treat their dead in thissingular manner, nor why they make so strange a distinction between thebodies of warriors who have died the death of the brave and those wholiave simply died from disease, accident, or decay. Perhaps there is noother country where the body of the dead warrior is left to the beasts LIVINGSTONE AMONG SAVAGES. 75 and birds, while those who die natural deaths are so elaborately buried,exhumed, and placed in the public cemetery. Why they do so they donot seem either to know or to care, and, as far as has been ascertained,this is one of the many customs which has survived long after those whopractise it have forgotten its signification. During the three or four weeks that elapse between the interment andexhumation of the body funeral dances are performed. Great numbersof both sexes take part in these dances, for which they decorate them-. COMMORO RUNNING TO THE FIGHT. selves in a very singular manner. Their hair helmets are supplementedby great plumes of ostrich feathers, each man wearing as many ashe can manage to fasten on his head, and skins of the leopard ormonkey are hung from their shoulders. The chief adornment, how-ever, is a large iron bell, which is fastened to the small of the back,and which is sounded by wriggling the body after a very ludicrousfashion. A large crowd got up in this style created an indescribable hubbub 76 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. heightened by the blowing of horns and the beating of seven nogaras ofvarious notes. Every dancer wore an antelopes horn suspended roundthe neck, which he blew occasionally in the height of his instruments produced a sound partaking of the braying
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