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JVrzizima, spheres of marble-sized white porcelain, and 
triangular pieces of shell, rounded at the corners. An 
erect fair girl, daughter of a chief, paid us a visit, 
accompanied by six maids, and sat silently for half an 
hour. She had a spiral circle of wool shaved off the 
crown of her head ; her only ornament was a necklace 
of green beads : she wore the usual wrapper, and across 
her shoulders a strip of scarlet cloth was thrown ; her 
other fineries were probably left at home. The women 
of the district generally had grace and gentleness in 
their manner. 
The plump little negro girls who came about our 
camp, standing with crossed arms and looking very 
frightened, are never allowed to shave their heads till 
they get married, consequently the hair is in matted 
tufts or mops, very ugly, with a triangular or square 
space shaved on the crown : if ornamented with 
cowries, the black wool appears to more advantage. 
They are not allowed to wear the usual clothing of 
women, but have the skin of a goat, with the hair in- 
side, round their loins, and so arranged that from the 
waist to the knee it remains open, exposing completely 
the right thigh. Not having lived in their villages, 
we could not see any of their customs. The chief of 
Usui's residence, entitled Quikooroo, was a set of grass 
huts, encircled by three concentric fences of thorn, the 
largest one being two to three miles round. The other 
huts in the valley had no fence whatever, except where 
planted round with a dense quickset of euphorbia, 
growing from twelve to twenty feet high. Sometimes 
by the pathway we observed cairns of stones, such as 
are found all over the world, and our leading porters 
generally threw their mite on the heap. In Hindostan 
