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MODES OF DRESSING THE HAIR. 



an operation as some might imagine ; for a tree was growing in a 

 horizontal position across part of the stream, and, there being no 

 want of the tough climbing plants which admit of being knitted 

 like ropes, Senhor P. soon constructed a bridge. The Loajima 

 was here about twenty-five yards wide, but very much deeper 

 than where I had crossed before on the shoulders of Mashauana. 

 The last rain of this season had fallen on the 28th, and had sud- 

 denly been followed by a great decrease of the temperature. The 

 people in these parts seemed more slender in form, and their 

 color a lighter olive, than any we had hitherto met. The mode 

 of dressing the great masses of woolly hair which lay upon their 

 shoulders, together with their general features, again reminded 

 me of the ancient Egyptians. Several were seen with the upward 

 inclination of the outer angles of the eye, but this was not 

 general. A few of the ladies adopt a curious custom of attach- 

 ing the hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving it some- 



No. 1. A Londa Lady's Mode of wearing tbe Hair. 



what the appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin 

 (wood-cut No. 1). Some have a small hoop behind that repre- 

 sented in the wood-cut. Others wear an ornament of woven hair 

 and hide adorned with beads. The hair of the tails of buffaloes, 

 which are to be found farther east, is sometimes added. This is 



