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from attacking others he also protects them from attack. 

 This salutary lesson had now been given to the tribes in 

 question, and had already produced good effects among the 

 Yergum, though less among the other two tribes. All these 



YEEGUM PA(;AN".- 



tribes, Montoil, Gurkaua and Yergum had much the same 

 type of features, and seemed to be closely related. The 

 favourite mode of wearing their hair was to let it grow in a 

 strip or ridge on the top of the head, and keep the rest clean 

 shaven. The Gurkaua women wear two rows of leaves 

 either in front or behind according to whether they are 

 married or not. The men usually wear skins or pieces of 

 native cloth, thrown not ungracefully over their shoulders. 



There is, of course, this to be said for the pagans. In 

 attacking the civiUsed Hausa and Fulani, they are but striving 

 to avenge themselves on their natural enemies, who, year 



