rings she displays. Sometimes these reach from 

 wrist to elbow, and from ankle to knee a most 

 heavy and uncomfortable ornament, I should say 

 but the true old saying, " Vanity must suffer 

 pain," applies equally in Africa as in civilised 

 parts. 



It is also the custom to tie a string of beads 

 very tightly just above the elbow, and all wear a 

 bead necklace. Many ornament their heads with 

 a fillet about an inch wide made of different 

 coloured beads worked into pretty patterns. 



Most Kafirs cut their wool almost close to the 

 head, and this the women often cut again into 

 patterns and stripes a piece of broken glass 

 usually serving as a razor. I have often seen a 

 group of women and girls engaged in dressing 

 one another's hair, combining at the same time 

 the friendly task of insect hunting! Occasion- 

 ally one sees a longer crop carefully combed up, 

 looking like a halo, and the fetish-women and 

 men also mess their locks up with red ochre and 

 grease into tiny ringlets, having the appearance 

 of a mass of rusty screws hanging down, a few 



