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collar makes him jump, and holds in its place the noose that 
is drawn taut by his jumping. To the other end of the raw- 
hide is fastened a heavy wooden clog which lies hidden in the 
grass or is covered by sand. We found these traps still set, 
and I must say they seemed to me the cleverest traps I ever 
saw. These Karamojo have never, so far as I could learn 
from them, had the visit of a white man. They knew noth- 
ing about missionaries and they said with justifiable pride, 
that diseases the curse of those tribes that had come in con- 
tact with the white man and the Hindi were unknown. 
The women wear skin aprons and short cloaks. The men 
are quite naked. ‘Their skins are very glossy and smooth 
and black. They wear the hair tightly drawn back and 
worked into a chignon which affords a very real protection 
to the head. The clay they use in working up this elaborate 
head dress seems to be impervious to heavy rain. After 
a moderate shower you see the Massai head dressing coming 
sadly to grief, and all their faces and shoulders dabbled and 
streaked with red runnels of water. While the Karamojo’s 
headgear is no more affected by a downpour than a duck’s 
back. At the nape of the neck they leave a little opening 
into the chignon, which has a hollow somewhere within it, 
and zn this they carry a snuff box or any small articles on 
which they place value. 
The evening of the day on which I shot my elephants, and 
on which the Karamojo had come in, there were tremendous 
rejoicings in camp. Some of my Wanyamwazi had been 
with me since May; now it was October and they determined 
to honour the occasion by getting up a dance, one of their 
regular dances, the dance of the elephant. I noticed after 
dinner, as I sat by the fire, that the camp seemed unusually 
still and that the men were absent from their cooking fire. 
Suddenly round the back of my tent came a long rank of men 
dancing with measured prancing step, a green twig on each 
man’s head and another in each hand. With admirable 
