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picturesque and highly colored costumes of the natives. No- 

 where did we see these costumes so abundant or striking as at 

 a little market or passer half way to the larger market of Koeboe 

 Krambil, to which we drove behind a crazy pair of ponies in a 

 very uncomfortable "herdic." There in a little clearing in the 

 dense vegetation about one of the prettiest of native public 

 houses, where public declarations are made and cock-fights wit- 

 nessed, was gathered the most effectively gaudy and picturesque 

 group of natives I had ever seen. Immense Roman and Egyp- 

 tian-like head-dresses, carefully colored sarongs tightly but grace- 

 fully folded about the shapely forms, jackets of soft, loosely 

 woven black, trimmed with gold and silver braid, and bracelets 

 and bangles in great profusion, reminded one of a gala day in 

 some Italian or Spanish town. But the most curious feature of 

 the native dress is their earrings, or ear-buttons, as they would 

 be more properly called, for. they are sometimes an inch or more 

 in diameter and of light but solid metal. All stages in the prep- 

 aration of the ear for the reception of these buttons were to be 

 found. There were mere babies with a single small puncture, 



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