Pert Nuby Girl 



perform a heavy day s march of fourteen hours. I 

 cycled on, and had a most unpleasant time wander- 

 ing about waiting for them and my food. I called *? ^ 

 on a local chief who was holdino- a " baraza" to hear 

 all the complaints of his tribe. He gave me one of 

 the finest and juiciest pine-apples I have ever eaten. 

 This fruit, I may say, I ate with my hands /atife de 

 77iieux, as none of the numerous natives present 

 could produce a knife, whilst they all amused them- 

 selves by standing in a circle and staring at me. It 

 is not an easy fruit at all to gobble in this manner, 

 and my face was covered with its sticky juice before 

 I had accomplished it. By which time I felt the 

 full force of a remark I once heard, that the draw- 

 back to eating pine-apples was that it made your 

 ears so wet. At last my "safari" turned up. One 

 of the young Nuby girls was very angry at my 

 making her walk so far, and shook her finger at me, 

 saying that the porter carrying my tent had been 

 seen lying down by the roadside, exhausted, a very 

 long distance back, so that I should have to sleep in 

 the open. I could not help laughing at her cheek in 

 daring to make fun of a white man, to say nothing 

 of a commandant. So I told her that I would make 

 her sleep out in the open also, and I added that 

 after her pleasant walk, she would probably be tired 

 enough to sleep very soundly notwithstanding. My 

 tent, needless to say, arrived all right. I made up 

 for having been fourteen hours without food or .-. 

 drink, and thoroughly enjoyed my evening meal 

 under the light of the moon. 



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