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extracted, and their tongues usually projected from their 
mouths, so that they talked with a lisp. If it were not for 
this disfigurement, the women would probably be good 
looking. 
“T saw several young girls with good figures and regular, 
oval features, who were just beginning to have their lips 
distended. The only apparent reason why the Murle 
mutilate their women is that they want to keep them from 
being stolen by their neighbors. 
I had eaten nothing since I left 
Rusia two days before, and I felt 
too unwell to march, so I had 
my boys carry me_ back part- 
way toward the lake to the 
camp of the previous day. We 
found that an elephant had been 
through the camp in our ab- 
sence, and had tramped down 
the zareba:- “Besides the ~El- 
gume, we were visited by some 
of the Buma, a tribe living just 
south of the Murle and visited 
by Lieutenant von Hohnel. 
“TI was too sick to pay atten- 
tion to anything that went on 
around me, so.I thought it best 
to return to Rusia and make a 
Sene aenaee fresh start when I got well again. 
Fortunately I was able yester- 
day to ride most of the way back on a donkey. I am 
feeling fairly fit again to-day, and shall in all probability 
make another attempt to-morrow to explore the valley of 
the Nianam. From a bit of high ground near the Murle 
I obtained an extensive view of the country to the west 
