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are exceedingly ugly and of a low type. The men 

 wear nothing in the way of dress but a scanty and 

 very dirty cloth thrown over the shoulders, while 

 the women attire themselves only in a short kilt 

 which is tied round them very lowlat the waist. 



"THE WOMEN ATTIRE THEMSELVES ONLY IN A SHORT KILT." 



Both men and women adorn themselves with brass 

 chains round the neck and coils of copper and iron 

 wire round the arms. 



The nearest native inhabitants to Tsavo are the 

 Wa Taita, who dwell in the mountains near N'dii, 

 some thirty miles away. My work often took me 

 to this place, and on one of my visits, finding 



