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store in their granaries and beat into flour as required 

 in a mortar made from a log. The men are exception- 

 ally well formed, smooth, lithe, well developed, with 

 torsos a sculptor could take entire as models. They 

 are about cafe au lait in colour, shave their heads to 

 taste, and have keen, inteUigent faces. Their lips are 

 often thin, and their noses fine cut, which gives them a 

 reminiscence of one retrousse Irish type. The women 

 are remarkable for the strength and graceful power 

 of their bodies rather than for any beauty. I have 

 never seen better set-up, arched-ribbed, deep-chested 

 creatures anywhere. Unfortunately, living in the 

 lower elevations, they have not the firm, high breasts of 

 the mountain people. Their expression is engaging 

 and they are not shy. They wear a sort of skin half 

 garment, metal anklets, wire armlets, and many beads, 

 but do not burden themselves like the Masai. The 

 men wear a cotton cloth shoulder cape, blanket, or 

 nothing as they happen to please. Their ear lobes are 

 stretched ; they wear smaU armlets and well-made bead 

 belts, white with red patterns. These latter are par- 

 ticularly effective. They go unarmed except for a 

 short sword, but I saw a few spears of a unique pattern. 



The bow is their weapon of chase. The method is to 

 drive the game toward a row of bowmen squatted be- 

 neath tripods of sticks! They use no other blind If 



The children of both sexes go naked quite until about 



t Possibly it is necessary only to break the human outline. 



