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manacles and fetters, her wrists and ancles. One 

 wing of her nose is hored to admit a stud — even 

 the patches of Europe were not more barbarous. 

 The Zanzibarian slave girl shaves her head 

 smooth, till it shows brown and shiny like a 

 well-polished cocoa-nut; and she drags along 

 her c hopeful ' — she has seldom more than one — 

 a small black imp, wholly innocent of clothing. 

 The thing already carries on its head a water- 

 jar bigger than its own ' pot-belly,' and it screams 

 Na-kuja (I come !) to other small fry disporting 

 itself more amusingly. 



