64 PYGMIES AND PAPUANS 



a shirt was so unpleasant to look at and he generally 

 became so demoralised in character, that we made it 

 a rule not to give them any of our rags. Empty bottles 

 were of course greatly sought after and the many 

 thousands of tins which we emptied during the course 

 of the expedition were wealth untold to a people, who 

 up to that time had possessed no sort of vessel. 



