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another village, the natives had horns and cones of mud on the 

 tops of their heads. Others, more ambitious, covered the entire 

 head with a crown of mud. 



The women, blessed with an abundance of hair, manufacture 

 it with a stiffening of light cane into a bonnet-shaped head dress, 

 allowing the back hair to flow down to the waist in masses of 

 ringlets. They seem to do all the work of life, for at all hours 

 they may be seen, with their large wicker baskets behind them, 



LIP RING AND PECULIAR HAIR DRESSING. 



setting out for the rivers or creeks to catch fish, or returning 

 with their fuel baskets strapped on across their foreheads. 



CANNIBALS AND DWARFS. 



SOME tribes of the Manyuema are addicted to cannibalism ir, 

 its most horrid features. They carry on predatory wars against 

 their neighbors, and the dead bodies of the slain are always 

 eaten. In the mad frenzy of their cannibalistic propensities 

 they impale tender infants on their horrid spears, and tear tht 

 bodies of the slain limb from limb. Even the women take a 

 prominent part in these terrible orgies. 



