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to every little settlement is a huge pole like a hending flagstaff, on which 

 are hung a festoon of little cages containing quails. These cages are 

 made of plaited grass, and the quail within acts as a decoy, attracting 

 other quails to the space below the cages, where snares are laid for their 

 entrapment. The quails are required solely for eating, not for sport 

 (quail-tighting), as in India. 



. LARGE WHITE BALSAM ON MOUNT ELliON 



Amongst the Kavirondo both sexes work in the lields, and in a state 

 of complete nudity, a condition which, as I remarked before, may be 

 excused on account of the generally fine figures of glistening black which 

 they possess. 



Where the land is not actually under cultivation in Kavirondo, the 

 prairies are gorgeous with wild-Howers at almost all times of the year. 



