From Naples to Entebbe. 



around the ss^llers, who crouch or sit on the ground heside the 

 baskets of every conceivable shape which contain their wares. 

 Men and women smoke the short straight pipes of the country. 

 Others circulate hitlier and thither with that buoyant and 

 elastic tread, like the gait of a wild animal, which comes from 

 the habit of moving without the impediment of clothes. The 

 women wear a string of beads aroinid their waist, from which a 

 sort of tail of woven fibres hangs down behind. The men wear 

 necklaces of glass beads, with Inacelets of iron on their wrists 

 and their ankles. Tlic iinxle of dressing tlie hair is frequently 

 fantastic and enibelllshtMl bv feathers, lilp}>opotamus teeth, 

 etc., etc. 



AMi.iXC; THE SESSE 1SL.\ND.S. 



The current coin, as througliout Eastern Africa, is the rupee, 

 wortli about l.v. 4(/. The use of cowries for currency persists 

 only in those forms of trade wliicli recpiire sulxlivision to an 

 infinitesimallv low value. 



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