420 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



ETHNOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. 



MR. STANLEY has injected into the record of his inarch to 

 Ujiji, in a separate chapter following his arrival in Unyanyembe; 

 much that is interesting, having immediate application to the 

 ethnographical features of the country through which he had 

 passed. Some of this, the more important, is here reproduced 

 in a summary that cannot but prove valuable to every reader. 



The tribes living within a hundred miles of the coast do not 

 show any strongly-marked distinguishing features by which to 

 classify them : only the most critical observer will note the tribal 

 connections : punctures of the ear, very little difference in garb, 

 and tattoo marks. But as we approach nearer to the interior, 

 there is a very noticeable distinction, extending to habits of life, 

 dress, disposition, and physical contour. Some of the people 

 are frank and friendly, notably the Wasagara, who are peculiarly 

 susceptible to missionary teachings. Their country is literally a 

 land flowing with milk and honey, and a more trustworthy and 

 kind people never lived. They are an exception. They are first 

 met with at the village Mpwapwa. Here the long slender ring- 

 lets, ornamented with brass and copper pendicles, balls, with 

 bright pice from Zanzibar, with a thin line of miniature beads 

 running here and there among the ringlets, are first seen. A 

 youthful Wasagara, with a faint tinge of ochre embrowning the 

 dull black hue of his face, with four or five bright copper coins 

 ranged over his forehead, with a tiny gourd's neck in each ear, 

 distending his ear-lobes, with a thousand ringlets well greased 

 and ornamented with tiny bits of brass and copper, with a head 

 well thrown back, broad breast thrown well forward, muscular 

 arms, and full-proportioned limbs, represents the beau-ideal of a 

 handsome young African savage. 



The Wasagara, male and female, tattoo the forehead, bosom 

 and .arms. Besides inserting the neck of a gourd in each ear 

 which carries bis little store of ** tumb?5 ? '' pr 



