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habitants of the same country ; and the people of 
Geriama, Ribe, and Kambe say that their forefathers 
hved with the Wapokomo in the district of the mount 
Mangea, but that upon the coming of the Gallas they 
were divided, one part going to the river Tana in the 
north, and the other to the Unika in the south. 
In physique the Wapokomo resemble the Wanika 
exactly. There is among them, as among the Wanika, 
a great variety of physiognomy and form, embracing 
almost every cast of countenance and shape of head 
between the thick-lipped, flat-nosed, sugar-loaf pated 
Negro, and the thin-lipped, aquiline-nosed, and lofty 
foreheaded Caucasian. But the extreme of Negro 
unsightliness is scarcely ever met with among them ; 
on the other hand, even according to our notions, there 
are some remarkably good-looking people among 
them. 
Their ornaments are beads, iron and brass wire, 
and shells. From one shell they make a white disk of 
about the size of a crown-piece, which is much prized. 
They anoint themselves extravagantly with oil and red 
ochre (mbu). They shave the top of the head from 
ear to ear, and twist their hair into strings, as the 
Wanika do. The betrothed girls and married women 
wear on their heads a circlet of palmyra leaf in the 
style of a coronet, a set-off to their charms of which 
thfey seem to think very highly. To take this from 
their heads would be an unpardonable offence. I 
asked to look at one, and my request was granted ; 
but I was informed that by this a great honour was 
done me. In dress they cannot boast great things, a 
small cloth about the loins being all the best of them 
wear. Full-grown young women often have nothing 
