482 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



had done so to lift the jaws up to their proper place and to sus- 

 tain them there. And in that position they pondered upon the 

 fact that there were men " white all over" in this queer world ! 



The uncontrollable, irrepressible wonder of the juvenile part 

 of the population seemed to find its natural expression in hopping 

 on one leg, thrusting their right thumbs into their mouths to 

 repress the rising scream, and slapping the hinder side of the 

 thighs to express or give emphasis to what was speechless. 

 While thus engaged, one of these restless youths stumbled across 

 a long heavy pole which was leaning insecurely against one of 

 the trees. The pole fell, striking one of Stanley's men severely 

 on the head. All at once there went up from the women a gen- 

 uine and unaffected cry of pity, while their faces expressed a 

 lively sense of tender sympathy with the wounded man, showing 

 through the disguise of tilth, nakedness, and ochre, the human 

 heart beating for another's suffering, causing Stanley to recog- 

 nize and hail them, though poor and degraded, as indeed sisters. 

 The women tenderly cared for the man's wounds, and before the 

 expedition departed from the village the chief and his people 

 loaded the men with bounties of bananas, chickens, Indian corn, 

 and malafu (palm-wine), and escorted them respectfully far 

 beyond the precincts of the village and their fields, parting at 

 last with the assurance that, should they ever happen to return 

 by their country, they would endeavor to make the second visit 

 much more agreeable than the first had been. 



The Manyuema have several very noteworthy pecularities. 

 Their weapons are a short sword scabbarded with wood, to which 

 is hung small brass and iron bells ; a light, beautifully balanced 

 spear probably, next to the spear of Uganda, the most, perfect 

 in the world. Their shields are veritable wooden doors. Their 

 dress consists of a narrow apron of antelope skin or finely-made 

 grass cloth. They wear knobs, cones, and patches of mud 

 attached to their beards, back hair, and behind the ears. The 

 old chief had rolled his beard in a ball of dark mud ; his children 

 wore their hair in braids with mud fringes. His drummer had a 

 great crescent-shaped patch of mud, at the back of the head. At 



