From Naples to Entebbe. 
around the sellers, who crouch or sit on the ground beside the 
baskets of every conceivable shape which contain their wares. 
Men and women smoke the short straight pipes of the country. 
Others circulate hither and thither with that buoyant and 
elastic tread, like the gait of a wild animal, which comes from 
the habit of moving without the impediment of clothes. The 
women wear a string of beads around their waist, from which a 
sort of tail of woven fibres hangs down behind. The men wear 
necklaces of glass beads, with bracelets of iron on their wrists 
and their ankles. The mode of dressing the hair is frequently 
fantastic and embellished by feathers, hippopotamus teeth, 
etc., etc. 
AMONG THE SESSE ISLANDS. 
The current coin, as throughout Eastern Africa, is the rupee, 
worth about 1.9. 4 d. The use of cowries for currency persists 
only in those forms of trade which require subdivision to an 
infinitesimally low value. 
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