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 .. . t is most repulsive to an American. !Elaborate Tattooing-. In this part of the country the sub-tribes are distinguished by certainmarks wherewith they tattoo themselves, and thereby succeed in stilLfarther disfiguring countenances which, if allowed to remain untouched,would be agreeable enough. Some of them have a fashion of prickingholes all over their faces, and treating the wounds in suc
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 .. . t is most repulsive to an American. !Elaborate Tattooing-. In this part of the country the sub-tribes are distinguished by certainmarks wherewith they tattoo themselves, and thereby succeed in stilLfarther disfiguring countenances which, if allowed to remain untouched,would be agreeable enough. Some of them have a fashion of prickingholes all over their faces, and treating the wounds in such a way that,,when they heal, the skin is raised in little knobs, and the face looks as ifit were covered with warts. Add to this fashion the pelele, and the BATTLING WITH DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS. 195. reader may form an opinion of the beauty of a fashionable woman. Ifthe object of fashion be to conceal age, this must be a most successfulfashion, as it entirely destroys the lines of the countenance, and hardensand distorts the features to such an extent, that it is difficult to judge bythe face whether the owner be sixteen or sixty. One of the women had her body most curiously adorned by tattooing,. SPECIMEN OF ELEGANT TATTOOING. and, indeed, was a remarkable specimen of Manganja fashion. She hadshaved all her head, and supplied the want of hair by a feather tuft overher forehead, tied on by a band. From a point on the top of her fore-head ran lines radiating over the cheeks as far as the ear, looking some-thing like the marks on a New Zealanders face. This radiating principlewas carried out all over her body. A similar point was marked on eachshoulder blade, from which the lines radiate down and back and over the 196 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. shoulders, and on the lower part of the spine and on each arm were otherpatterns of a similar nature. She of course wore the pelele; but sheseemed ashamed of it, probably because she was a travelled woman,and had seen white men before. So
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