THE YOUNG PRINCES OF KARAGUE. 
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was wine or women. From the tuft of wool left un- 
shaven on the crown of his head to his waist he was 
bare, except where decorated round the muscle of the 
arm and neck with charmed horns, stripes of otter- 
skin, shells, and knobs of wood. The skin covering 
the loins, which, with the Karague people, is peculiar 
in shape, reached below the knee behind, and was cut 
away in front. From below the calf to the ankle was 
a mass of iron wire ; and when visiting from neigh- 
bour to neighbour, he always, like every Karague per- 
son, carried in his hand a five-feet-long staff with a 
knob at the end. He constantly came to ask after 
me, bringing flowers in his hand, as he knew my 
fondness for them ; and at night he would take Frij, 
my head man, into the palace along with his " zeze " 
or guitar, to amuse his sisters with Zanzibar music. 
In turn the sisters, brothers, and followers would sing 
Karague music, and early in the morning Master Frij 
and Chundera would return rather jolly to their huts 
outside the palace enclosures. This shows the kindly 
feeling existing between us and the family of the sul- 
tan ; and although this young prince had showed me 
many attentions, he never once asked for a present. 
The second son, Kienj, was by a different mother (the 
sister of the king of Unyoro, I believe) ; he was six 
feet high at least, very black, and so ugly and dispro- 
portionately long about the head, that we called him 
the "camel." He was a slow, stupid fellow, very 
simple, and a bumpkin in comparison with the others. 
Like his brothers, he was married, and had one child, 
but lived in the palace enclosure. Previous to my 
leaving he made bold to beg for my only umbrella, 
because his own was past mending ! The third son 
