MASAI LAND. 
573 
Then an operation was performed on the damsel. Re- 
covered from its effects, she had to wait till the calving- 
season, as abundance of milk is an indispensable requi- 
site in the honeymoon. Meanwhile, she allowed her 
hair to grow till it assumed the appearance of an old 
shoe-brush clotted up with blacking. Round the head 
she wore a band of cowries from which depended a 
number of strings, forming in fact the bridal veil. At 
last the happy day arrived, and the final seal was put 
upon the marriage by both parties disposing of their 
chain earrings, and substituting a double disc of copper- 
wire arranged spirally. The lady also shaved her head, 
laid aside the garment of 
the ditto, and clothed herself 
with two skins, one suspen- 
ded from the waist, the other 
from the shoulder. Strang- 
est of all, however, and 
strikingly indicative of the 
fact that he had exchanged 
the spear for the distaff, 
Moran had actually to wear 
the garment of a ditto for 
one month. Just imagine 
what fun it would be in this 
staid and dignified country 
of ours, if a young man had 
to spend his honeymoon in a cast-off suit of his wife’s 
maiden clothes. What our friend’s feelings were in this 
guise, I do not know, and this veracious chronicle does 
not admit of conjecture. 
He was now wholly a changed being — as indeed who 
is not when he gets married ? His strict rules of diet 
were abandoned, and, though meat and milk were still 
the main items of his eating, he could now vary it with 
vegetable food, obtained by his wife from neighbouring 
agricultural tribes. Luxuries, also, he might now indulge 
in. He sported a fancy snuff-box and tobacco-box of 
ivory or rhinoceros’ horn, and delighted to rap up its 
contents as he handed it to a friend. He chewed tobacco 
EAR ORNAMENTS — MARRIED WOMAN. 
