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no bead ornaments, but a plain ear-ring is inserted into the top of 
each ear. They also wear rings, one of which is a wedding ring ; 
unfortunately, I have forgotten upon which finger this is worn. 
The women wear a wooden stick about half an inch in length, or a 
small crystal through the left nostril. The septem of the nose and 
lips are never pierced, but ear-rings are almost universally worn. 
They also affect numberless necklaces and girdles made of various 
kinds of beads, and bracelets and anklets made of iron or brass, and 
more rarely still of silver. At festivals many of the women also 
wear tinkling bangles and small bells around their wrists, waists, 
and ankles, to please their lovers. Many women adorn their fore- 
heads with three or four thin, round gold plates, having various 
patterns, and fastened to a band. Filigree ear-rings are also made 
of silver or gold, modelled after Arab patterns. Both men and 
women wear amulets and love tokens, which are suspended round 
the women’s necks and fastened round the upper arm of the men. 
No ornaments are employed as badges of distinctive rank, nor have 
they tribal marks, save those worn in war (which see). The Fors 
never deform themselves, nor do they extract the incisor teeth, 
which is an almost universal custom among the tribes living farther 
south. 
Customs.— The usual mode of salutation is by shaking of hands. 
To this is added kneeling on one knee, if the persons have not met 
for a long time. Women always kneel to men, and, rarely, a man 
kneels to a woman if she is a relation and they have not met for 
many weeks. Women always kneel to their husbands, except in 
private. Kissing is confined to mothers and their babies. When 
people pass one another in the streets they say “Kilonya.” Memr 
bers of a family meeting each other in the morning say “ Konas 
kav kor,” which is analogous to “ I hope you have slept well.” 
When friends or relations have been absent a long time, or been in 
any danger, and meet for the first time, they kneel down on both 
knees, put their arms round each other’s shoulders, and then shake 
hands. 
Buies of precedence in serving food are as follows : — Puggees, 
aged men, chiefs, younger men, youths. 
W r omen are evidently considered inferior to men, whom they 
must respect and obey in all things. The aged women, however, as 
