TPIE SOUTHERN BAMBALA YOUTHS ARE RATHER EFFEMINATE IN APPEARANCE, BUT 

 THEY HAVE GREAT POWERS OE ENDURANCE 



Always gay, easily made happy, they are friendly toward Europeans and make most 

 desirable neighbors and companions. The northern Bambala are strongly built and tall, but 

 farther to the south, with increasing scarcity of food comes a slighter type, which also seems 

 to be lighter in color. The hands and feet are small and they use their toes with great 

 dexterity in picking up objects from the ground. In the north the women are rather homely, 

 but in the south genuine beauty is to be found among the softer sex. 



OFF ON A SHOPPING EXPEDITION IN THE CONGO 



Marketing is one of the duties of the woman in Central Africa; it is also one of her 

 great pleasures. Thus it appears that the joys of bargain hunting are not the exclusive pre- 

 rogative of western civilization's womankind. All blacks are born traders, but the female 

 of the species is more clever than the male. 



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