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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



it his own peculiar tattoo. The king, and all other people 

 of consequence, white, Indian, or native, went round in 

 rickshaws, one man pulling in the shafts and three others 

 pushing behind. The rickshaw men ran well, and sang 

 all the time, the man in the shafts serving as shanty-man, 

 while 'the three behind repeated in chorus every second 

 or two a kind of clanging note; and this went on without 



a break, hour 

 after hour. 

 The natives 

 looked well 

 and were 

 dressed well; 

 the men in 

 long flowing 

 garments of 

 white, the 

 women usually 

 in brown cloth 

 made in the old 

 native style out 

 of the bark of 

 the bark cloth 

 tree. The 



clothes of the chiefs were tastefully ornamented. All the 

 people, gentle and simple, were very polite and ceremonious 

 both to one another and to strangers. Now and then we 

 met parties of Sikh soldiers, tall, bearded, fine-looking men 

 with turbans; and there were Indian and Swahili and 

 even Arab and Persian traders. 



The houses had mud walls and thatched roofs. The 

 gardens were surrounded by braided cane fences. In the 

 gardens and along the streets were many trees; among them 

 bark cloth trees, from which the bark is stripped every 

 year for cloth; great incense-trees, the sweet-scented gum 

 oozing through wounds in the bark; and date-palms, in the 

 fronds of which hung the nests of the golden weaver-birds, 



Mother Paul's band composed of mission boys 

 From a photograph by Kcrmil Roosevelt 



