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judice draped them so as to hide their nakedness. But 
others appeared—men and women—with literally not 
one stitch of clothing, although they might have rather 
elaborate hairdresses, and masses of metal ornaments on 
their arms and legs. In the region where one tribe 
dwelt all the people had their front teeth filed to sharp 
points. It was strange to see a group of these savages, 
stark naked, with oddly shaved heads and filed teeth, 
armed with primitive bows and arrows, stand gravely 
gazing at the train as it rolled into some station; and 
none the less strange, by the way, because the loco¬ 
motive was a Baldwin, brought to Africa across the 
great ocean from our own country. One group of 
women, nearly nude, had their upper arms so tightly 
bound with masses of bronze or copper wire that their 
muscles were completely malformed. So tightly was 
the wire wrapped round the upper third of the upper 
arm that it was reduced to about one-half of its normal 
size, and the muscles could only play, and that in de¬ 
formed fashion, below this unyielding metal bandage. 
Why the arms did not mortify it was hard to say, and 
their freedom of use was so hampered as to make it 
difficult to understand how men or women whose 
whole lives are passed in one or another form of manual 
labour could inflict upon themselves such crippling and 
pointless punishment. 
Next morning we were in the game country, and as 
we sat on the seat over the cow-catcher it was literally 
like passing through a vast zoological garden. Indeed, 
no such railway journey can be taken on any other line 
in any other land. At one time we passed a herd of a 
dozen or so of great giraffes, cows and calves, cantering 
along through the open woods a couple of hundred 
yards to the right of the train. Again, still closer, four 
