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shields, or guns, the arrows are of very superior make, and the 

 Wakamba are first-rate archers. Arrows tipped with a very 

 effective vegetable poison are used in hunting. The plain 

 wooden cylinder-shaped quivers are decorated with ostrich 



UKAMBANI MAIDEN. 



feathers, and the sword or sime is not worn in a belt, as 

 elsewhere, but suspended from a strap hung across the 

 shoulders. 



Very effective and tasty is the dress of the women and girls 



