. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. a light, beautifullybalanced spear—probably, next to the spear of Uganda, themost perfect in the world. Their shields were veritablewooden doors. Their dress consisted of a narrow apron ofantelope skin or finely made grass cloth. They wore knobs,cones, and patches of mud attached to their beards, back hair,and behind the ears. Old Mwana Ngoy had rolled his beardin a ball of dark mud : his children wore their hair in braids with mud frino;e
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. a light, beautifullybalanced spear—probably, next to the spear of Uganda, themost perfect in the world. Their shields were veritablewooden doors. Their dress consisted of a narrow apron ofantelope skin or finely made grass cloth. They wore knobs,cones, and patches of mud attached to their beards, back hair,and behind the ears. Old Mwana Ngoy had rolled his beardin a ball of dark mud : his children wore their hair in braids with mud frino;es. His drummerhad a great crescent-shaped patchof mud at the back of the Kizambala, the natives hadhorns and cones of mud on thetops of their heads. Others, moreambitious, covered the entire headwith a crown of mud. The women, blessed with anabundance of hair, manufacturedit with a stiffening of light caneinto a bonnet-shaped head-cbess,allowing the back hair to flowdown to the waist in masses of ringlets. They seemed todo all the work of life, for at all hours they might be seen,with their large wicker baskets behind them, setting out for. A YOUNG WOMAN OF EAST MANYEMA.
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