From Naples to Entebbe. 



around the sellers, who croucli or sit on the ground beside the 

 baskets of every conceivable shape which contain their wares. 

 Men and women smoke the short straight pipes of the country. 

 Others circulate hither and thither with that buoyant and 

 elastic tread, like the gait of a wild animal, which comes from 

 the habit of moving without the impediment of clothes. The 

 women wear a string of beads around their waist, from which a 

 sort of tail of woven fibres hangs down behind. The men wear 

 necklaces of glass beads, with bracelets of iron on their wrists 

 and their ankles. The mode of dressing the hair is frequently 

 fantastic and embellished by feathers, hipjDopotamus teeth, 

 etc., etc. 



AMOxXG THE SESSE ISLANDS. 



The current coin, as throughout Eastern Africa, is the rupee, 

 worth about 1.9. 'id. The use of cowries for currency persists 

 only in those forms of trade which require subdivision to an 

 infinitesimally low value. 



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