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to every little settlement is a Imge pole like a l)encling flagstaff, on which 

 are hung a festoon of little cages containing quails. 'J'hese cages are 

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

 other quails to the S})ace l)elow the cages, where snares are laid for their 

 entra})nient. The cpiails are required solelv for eating, not for sport 

 (quail-tight ing), as in India. 



38. LARUE WHITE BALSAM OX MOCXT ELGON 



Amongst the Kavirondo hoth sexes work in the fields, 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-fiowers at almost all times of the year. 



