OVER THE LIKIPIA ESCARPMENT 



a French poodle, liberally anointed with castor-oil 

 and coloured with red-paint clay. His body too 

 was turned to bronze by the same method; so that 

 he looked like a beautiful smooth metal statue come 

 to life. To set this quality off he wore glittering 

 collars, bracelets, anklets, and ear ornaments of 

 polished copper and brass. When he joined us his 

 sole costume was a negligent two-foot strip of cotton 

 cloth. After he had received his official jersey, he 

 carefully tied the cloth over his wonderful head ; nor 

 as far as we knew did he again remove it until the end 

 of the expedition. All his movements were inexpres- 

 sibly graceful. They reminded one somehow of 

 Flaxman's drawings of the Greek gods. His face, 

 too, was good-natured and likable. A certain half 

 feminine, wild grace, combined with the queer effect 

 of his headgear, caused us to name him Daphne. At 

 home he was called Kingangui. 



At first he carried his burden after the fashion of 

 savages on the back; and kept to the rear of the 

 procession; and at evening consorted only with old 

 Lightfoot. As soon as opportunity offered he built 

 himself a marvellous iridescent ball of marabout 

 feathers. Each of these he split along the quill, so 

 that they curled and writhed in the wind. This pictu- 

 resque charm he suspended from a short pole in front 

 of his tent. Also, since he belonged to the Kikuyu 



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