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MATABELE LAND. 
ance the effect wouid be much heightened ; but 
unfortunately the dress is not de rigueur. Some 
omit the fur round the forehead ; some both fur and 
ASSEGAI-HEADS AND BATTLE-AXE. 
feather ; and some of those in command have even 
shabby shirts or hats on, contrasting badly with the 
fine warrior costume of the majority. The only 
military evolution gone through is marching past in 
kraals, or what we should call companies, the men 
