GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



Their round well-formed shoulders shone in the 

 sunlight. A young Kikuyu beauty came to talk to 

 them, which she did in a coy and amusing fashion ; 

 one of the warriors had a small twig in his hand and 

 she playfully snatched it from him. I watched 

 with interest to see what the twig was for ; she 

 broke it in three pieces and gave each one, then 

 they loosened the fibres of the ends, making them 

 form a little brush, with which they all proceeded 

 to clean their already gleaming teeth, rubbing them 

 this way and that, and up and down, continuing the 

 whole time their animated conversation. They 

 made a pretty group ; I was sorry I had not my 

 camera handy. 



The men do their hair in several fashions, one 

 with it falling all round their heads and on their 

 foreheads in thick cords, at other times their heads 

 are like woolly mops, sometimes the cords are tied 

 up in Masai fashion. On one occasion I thought 

 we had a porter missing, till he was brought to me 

 and it was explained he had let loose his cords, 

 which so altered his appearance that I thought he 

 was a different boy. Some men and most women 

 appear to shave their heads all round the edge of a 

 large central mop ; the women fix the leather of 

 their burdens against this edge which seems to keep 

 it from slipping, but I noticed our porters put the 

 leather which supported their loads in the middle 

 of the bunch of hair. Their ears are pierced and 



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