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MODES OF DRESSING THE HAIR. 



Chap. XXII. 



plants, which admit of being knitted like ropes, supplied the 

 materials necessary for completing the structure. The Loajima 

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

 than where I had crossed it before on the shoulders of 

 Mashauana. The last rain of this season had fallen on the 

 28th, and had suddenly 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. Their 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. 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 



Barotse Salutations. 



Virgin. Others wear an ornament of woven hair and hide 

 adorned with beads, the hair of the tails of buffaloes being 



