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UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN 



heavy. The lady was under a cloud. It appears that some time 

 previously she had taken a great fancy to some one, and that 

 she employed a comely young handmaid to carry her amatory 

 messages. What Shakespeare described hundreds of years a^^o 

 in "Twelfth Night" as happening when Viola was sent to 

 Olivia, happened in this case. The infuriated Princess wreaked 

 a cruel vengeance on her handmaid. 



I w^as invited to the Kakunguru's wedding. Both he and the 

 Princess are stately figures of noble bearing. There was great 



feasting and 

 merry-mak- 

 ing. Drums 

 and pipes 

 were playing, 

 oxen, sheep, 

 and goats had 

 been slaugh- 

 tered to pro- 

 vide for the 

 multitude of 

 guests. The 

 expense must 

 have been en- 

 ormous. Some 

 of the mis- 

 sionaries were 

 present, and 

 in accordance 

 with native 

 courtesy their 

 plates were 

 loaded to an 

 extent that a score of hungry men could not have devoured. 

 Native etiquette makes it obligatory to eat the whole of the 

 enormous helping ; but it fortunately provides also for over- 

 coming the difticulty by permitting mouthfuls being distributed 

 to followers. One missionary silently but rapidly emptied his 

 plate by feeding loyal but hungry converts. 



The most common musical instruments are the drum and 

 the pipe. The pipe is cut either from a reed or from the slender 

 stem of a bamboo. The upper end is notched, and becomes the 



WACANDA MUSICIANS. 



