PEOPLE 



the back country counts millions of raw jungle 

 savages, only too glad to drift in occasionally for a 

 look at the metropolis. 



At first the newcomer is absolutely bewildered by 

 the variety of these peoples; but after a little he 

 learns to differentiate. The Somalis are perhaps 

 the first recognizable, with their finely chiselled, 

 intelligent, delicate brown features, their slender 

 forms, and their strikingly picturesque costumes of 

 turbans, flowing robes, and embroidered sleeveless 

 jackets. Then he learns to distinguish the savage 

 from the sophisticated dweller of the town. Later 

 comes the identification of the numerous tribes. 



The savage comes in just as he has been for, 

 ethnologists alone can guess, how many thousands 

 of years. He is too old an institution to have been 

 affected as yet by this tiny spot of modernity in the 

 middle of the wilderness. As a consequence he 

 startles the newcomer even more than the sight of 

 giraffes on the skyline. 



When the shenzi — wild man — comes to town 

 he gathers in two or three of his companions, and 

 presents himself as follows: His hair has been 

 grown quite long, then gathered in three tight pig- 

 tails wound with leather, one of which hangs over 

 his forehead, and the other two over his ears. The 

 entire head he has then annointed with a mixture 



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