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THE SLAVE GIRL. 



the shoulder, are known by a comparatively 

 civilized aspect. They copy their masters, and 

 strangers remark that the countenance is cheer- 

 ful and not destitute of intelligence. The Bozals, 

 or freshly -trapped chattels, are far more original 

 and interesting. See those Nyassa-men, with 

 their teeth filed to represent the cat or the croco- 

 dile, chaffing some old Shylock, an Arab dealer in 

 human flesh and blood ; or those wild TJzegura- 

 men, with patterned skins and lower incisors 

 knocked out, like the Shilluks to the west of the 

 Nile, scowling evilly, and muttering curses at 

 the Nakhuda (skipper) from Sur, the professional 

 kidnapper of their kind. 



The 6 fairer ' half of black world is not less 

 note-worthy. There is the tall and sooty-skinned 

 Avoman from Uhiao, distinguished by the shape 

 of her upper lip. A thorn-pierced hole is en- 

 larged with stalks of green reed till it can admit 

 a disk of w T hite-painted wood nearly as big as a 

 dollar. The same is the system of the Dors, the 

 tribe dwelling north of the equator and west of 

 the Nile ; their lip-plates equal the thick end of 

 a cheroot ; and the c pelele ' of the southern re- 

 gions is a similar disk of bamboo, ivory, or tin, 

 which causes the upper lip to project some two 

 inches beyond the nose-tip, giving it an anserine 



