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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, Senlior 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 

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

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



No. 1. A Londa lady's mode of wearing the hair. 



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 eyes, but this was not 

 general. A few of the ladies adopt a curious custom of attaching 

 the hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving it somewhat 

 the appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin (wood- 

 cut No. 1). Some have a small hoop behind that represented in 

 the woodcut. Others wear an ornament of woven hair and hide 

 adorned with beads. The hair of the tails of buffaloes, which 

 are to be found further east, is sometimes added. This is 



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