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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
buy grain. She, however, was in her element when a 
caravan came round, and then she enjoyed the double 
pleasure of an intrigue and a lovely present of iron wire 
and beads. 
In time Moran’s first wife became old and ugly, and 
he took to himself a second — the former being stripped 
of all her iron wire for the purpose of decking the 
new comer. At last the day closed for both of them, 
and one after the other, they formed the subject of 
horrible hyenas’ laughter. These fierce creatures, with 
the vultures and the storks, tore their flesh under the 
light of the moon. Nothing remained but a couple of 
grim skulls and some bloody bones when the sun rose 
over the grassy plain in the morning ; and the young 
urchins of the kraal kicked them about and laughed as 
they threw them at one another. 
MASAI MA1UUED WOMAN. 
