316 NATIVE DRESS. Chap. XV. 



now saw many good-looking young men and women. The 

 dresses of the ladies are identical with those of Nubian 

 women in Upper Egypt. To a belt on the waist a great 

 number of strings are attached to hang all round the 

 person. These fringes are about six 

 or eight inches long. The matrons 

 wear in addition a skin cut like the 

 tails of the coatee formerly worn by 

 our dragoons. The younger girls 

 wear the waist-belt exhibited in the 

 waist-beit. woodcut, ornamented with shells, and 



have the fringes only in front. Marauding parties of Batoka, 

 calling themselves Makololo, have for some time had a 

 wholesome dread of Siuamane's "long spears." Before 

 going to Tette our Batoka friend, Masakasa, was one of 

 a party that came to steal some of the young women ; but 

 Sinamane, to their utter astonishment, attacked them so 

 furiously that the survivors barely escaped with their lives. 

 Masakasa had to flee so fast that he threw away his shield, 

 his spear, and his clothes, and returned home a wiser and a 

 sadder man. 



