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BARI MEN AND WOMEN. 
worn deep beds for themselves ; but now in fording 
the largest they only reached to the knee, and with 
bare feet we enjoyed the wading. Their waters were 
rather insipid and tasteless. 
We dared not rest at any of the Bari villages, as 
the Toorkees distrusted the people ; but Bookhait, 
the second in command of the traders, beckoned 
to a Bari, and he frankly joined us. He was a 
tall, erect, thin man, naked from head to foot, but 
with all the airs of a well-dressed beau, for his 
body was smeared with a red clay pomade. Above 
each elbow he wore a massive ring of ivory, upon one 
shoulder he carried a diminutive stool of one piece of 
solid dark wood, and he had a rope-sash which pos- 
sessed a five-finger-like charm ; he was unarmed. Next 
morning he brought into camp a very fine tusk, for 
which he received in exchange a female goat and its 
kid — cheap ivory certainly. The women wore each 
a long apron of leather to the knee and a separate 
broader one of sewn leather behind : these skins they 
colour with clay, and they seem to wear no ornaments; 
however, there was not much opportunity for obser- 
vation on our part, as they ran away on observing us 
watch, them. It seems strange that these people, who 
for the last thirty years have been only from twenty 
to thirty miles distant from the Austrian mission-sta- 
tion at Gondokoro, should still be so wild ; but the 
missionaries state that the ivory trade has spoiled the 
country for civilisation, and whenever the inhabitants 
see a foreigner, white or black, they look upon him as 
an enemy, come for no other purpose than to seize 
cattle or whatever else he can, 
In travelling through the Bari our large caravan 
