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women ai'e pai'ticul.-ii' alidut con- 

 I'f'aliii!^' I III' pudenda, wliciras the 

 111(^11 ai'e osteiital iiiiisly naked. 

 Tiie liiii/ii iiild li(jld iiii(lil\- in the 

 niah' til lii_' ,-urli an aljhmi'ent 

 thini;' that tur cent nrie.- they 

 ha\e i-eteiTed with M'oi'n and 

 ilisi;ii>t ti) the Xih' ?\e^i'iieH as tlie 

 •• r.a-keiH." or ■• >i'akeil I'eople." 

 Sjieke iiiehliles all rei;'ii)ns in the 

 niirth and ea~t ut' I'^anda and 

 lin'iini as ■ Kidi '" (a nusiendeu- 

 inn' I'f I hermit ••kedi" — ■•naked '"). 

 and ti) this day the wnnl lias he- 

 fi, j eoiiie so runted as a i^'eoyraphical 

 teiiii that line of the districts 

 g' lit the Tganda Protectnrate is 

 _; ^l\leil '• J'Jukedi." iir the -Land 

 lit ?sak'edne>-."' This ennilitinn 

 111' male niiditv extends north- 

 west til within some '2i)0 jiiiles of 

 i\haiinin, or, in fact, whm'ever 

 llie .\ili' Negroes of the ]>inka- 

 Aelmli >tock inhahit the ciiuntri.'. 

 The s/i//e of Ik/iisc huilt liy 

 the Nile Negroes is as character- 

 istic of them as the attitude of 

 standing on oire leg. The hut 

 is circular in shape, and the sides 

 mtiv lie made of reeds. There 

 is great "uniformitv amongst the 

 Nile Negroes in the ^fvle of llinlcliiiii/ their huts. Their Imuses are the 

 round liee]ii\"es huilt i if reed< or wattle and danh. liiit the peaked roof is 

 a hiidi line, extending ii\er the iramework ol the house nearh' to the 

 ground, and is thatched in a series of flounces, ^\'here\"er the Nile jienple 

 ha\'e carried their languages this ■■ fliiunced " thalching appears, with the 

 excejition. perhaps, of Karamojo (where tlii' penjile. being nf J'untii origin, 

 apjiear to ha\e rettiined the smooth-thatched hutsj and amnng the 

 .la-luii. whoM' hi.iuses are hnilt ju>t like tlniM' ut the Ijantii Ka\iriindo, 

 The .Masai group, hiiwi-\'ei-, tliuugh allic-d in nrigin arid language to the 

 Nile Negroes, does not adiij.t this style ot thatch. As will he seen in the 

 next ehtipter, they either luiild hmi^ev like those of the Jiantu Negroes 



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