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unmarncd women and verv often nialrons went stark naked. Eveu 

 anioni(st the prudish Baganda, wlio made it a })iinishalile oii'ence at one 

 time for a man to expose any part of his leg above tlie knee, the wives 

 of the king would attc^nd at his court perfectly naketl. Araon'j- the- 



418. ALUKU WOMAN' AM) CHILD FKOM WADEl.AI 



Kavirondo all unmarried girls are completely nude, and although womei> 

 who have become mothers are su})posed to wear a tiny covering before 

 and l)ehind. they very often completely neglect to do so when in their 

 own villages. Yet, as a general rule, among the 2slle Negroes, and still 

 more markedly among the H:imites and peoples of Masai stock, the 



