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over with clay. The little hut, which scarcely 
measured seven feet in diameter, contained two 
couches, one raised above the ground to the right, 
and the other on the level of the ground on the left 
of the entrance. Three spears, a common shield, and 
a large shield called " chaggo" by the Marghi, " kutu- 
fani" by the Kaniiri, consisting of a thick texture of 
reed, and big enough to protect two or three persons, 
a basket and a net, " uturu," hanging from the roof, 
formed the furniture of this little dwelling, which was 
the apartment of the youngest son of the family, a 
fine, tall, and slender young man, with a very pleasant- 
expression of countenance. Except that he wore the 
" funo," a small leather apron, round his waist, he 
was quite naked, but loaded with coquettish orna- 
ments. Round his neck he wore a double string of 
red beads, a little lower another set of three strings 
of corals, and still lower again a set of two strings of 
iron beads ; on his left shoulder he wore four broad 
iron rings, or " kegela;" on his elbow two other narrow 
iron rings (barachaggo) very neatly worked like 
beads ; on his wrist six narrow and one broad iron 
ring, or " unzo," and above them an ivory ring, or 
" yecho." The right arm was not so richly endowed 
with ornaments, having only four iron rings at the 
upper part, and two on the wrist. Below his knee 
he wore a chain of cotton very neatly twisted — this is 
called " shishidderi," * — and on his foot-joint a narrow 
* Perhaps this was a sign of mourning. 
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