158 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



strike with if disarmed and to cut with when struggling with an 

 enemy. 



The women are as plain as the men are fastidious ; they are 

 not even acquainted with the use of a loin-cloth. They are not 

 well made as the men, for while the latter are sinewy and 

 graceful, the women ;ire immense creatures, with prodigious 

 limbs and in all respects appear to be admirably fitted for 

 the drudgery service they are put to. 



CHIEF MOY AND HIS WIFE. 



ON the day after Baker's arrival he was visited by the chief, 

 who had never before seen a white person. Seating him upon a 

 piece of Persian carpet, Baker poured out a quantity of beads, 

 necklaces, copper bars, and colored cotton handkerchiefs. 

 Among the gifts was a necklace composed of opal beads, the 

 size of marbles. He seized them like a greedy child and 

 requested a similar necklace for his wife, Bokke ; this being also 

 given him, the chief said, "What a row there will be in the 

 family when my other wives see Bokke (who was his chief wife) 

 dressed up with this finery." This was, of course, a demand 

 for more opal beads, whereupon Baker gave him three pounds of 

 beads to be divided among his wives. 



On the next day Bokke called at Baker's hut, covered with 

 beads, and presenting a singular spectacle by reason of the scars 

 on her cheeks, tattoo marks on her temples, and a piece of ivory 

 pending from a perforation through her lower lip. Despite these 

 disfigurations she was real pretty, and her daughter, Baker 

 declares, was the handsomest savage girl he ever saw. 



Bokke made herself entertaining by asking how many wives 

 the white man had, and laughing with scorn, if not incredulity, 

 when told that he had but one. She also suggested to Mrs. Baker 

 that her looks would be very much improved by knocking out 

 her four lower front teeth, according to the custom of that 

 country, and wearing red ointment on her hair and a piece of 

 bone through her lower lip. 



In the afternoon of the following day she came again, with the 

 information, that Mohamed Her and his party of 110 men had 



