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show a curious little crupper which gives a 

 whimsical appearance to the posterior surface 

 — I have ohserved this also amongst the Somal. 

 The favourite standing position is cross-legged, a 

 posture unknown to Europe ; sometimes the sole 

 of one foot is applied to the ankle or to the knee 

 of the other leg : the gait — no two nations walk 

 exactly alike — is half-stride, half-lounge. Eyes 

 wild and staring, ahrupt gestures, harsh, loud, 

 and harking voices, still evidence the ignoble 

 savage. 



The Wanyika afford a curious study of rudi- 

 mental mind. A nation of semi-naturals as 

 regards moral and intellectual matters, their 

 ideas are all in confusion. To the incapacity of 

 childhood they unite the hard-headedness of 

 age, and with the germs of thought that make 

 a Bacon or a Shakespeare they combine an utter 

 incapability of developing them. Their religion 

 is of the ' small ' category, the large being 

 Brahmanism and Buddhism, Judaism, Chris- 

 tianity and El Islam, the first active Beform- 

 ation of its predecessor, and the triumph of 

 Arianism over Athanasianism. The system is 

 that of a ' Gentile worshipping nothing,' yet 

 feeling instinctively that there is a Something 

 above or beyond him. It is the vain terror 



