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which course it had taken ; but the hmg was not injured, and April, 

 there was no escape of air. I made a couple of pads of a cam- ^*^^'^- 

 brie handkerchief, and bound him uj), lashing his arm so that 

 he could not move it; and though he lost much blood, it was 

 all venous, and soon stopped. 



After I had given him some morphia to induce sleep, his 

 chums differed from my treatment, and gave him hot water 

 to drink, in order, as they said, to remove any bad blood in 

 his stomach. He consequently retched most violently, and 

 the bleeding burst out again. I constantly cautioned the men 

 against keeping their guns loaded, yet this fool used his rifle as 

 a boat-hook, holding it by the muzzle and clawing at the gun- 

 wale of the boat with the hammer ! 



No imported cloth was to be seen at the village of Kitata, 

 tlie people wearing skins, bark-cloth, or cotton of their own 

 manufacture. The natives suspend their clothing round the 

 waist by rope as thick as the little finger, bound neatly with 

 brass wire. Their wool is sometimes anointed with oil in which 

 red earth has been mixed, giving them the appearance of hav- 

 ing dipped their heads in blood. 



We next camped at Makukira, on a river of the same name, 

 as I was suffering from a severe pain in my eyes, and was too 

 ill to take bearings. Makukira was a large place, with a ditch 

 and stockade banked up on the outside. 



The chief was profusely greased, had a patch of lamp-black 

 on his chest and forehead, and wore a tiara of leopard-claws 

 with the roots dyed red, and behind it a tuft of coarse, whitish 

 hair. A pair of leopard - skin aprons, a few circles of yelloAv 

 grass below his knees, a ring of sofi on each ankle, and a fly- 

 flapper, with the handle covered with beads, completed his at- 

 tire — if we except the lamp-black which was rubbed into all 

 his tattoo -marks. His wives, one of whom was very good- 

 looking, were busy getting pombe ready for him ; and, having 

 poured some into a calabash and filled it up with hot water, 

 one of them sat on a stool along-side him. Then, taking the 

 calabash on her lap, she held it while he sucked the contents 

 through a reed. He kindly sent me some of this beverage, but 

 I was much too unwell to taste it. 



Girls without children often make dolls of a calabash onia- 



