CHAP. I.] 
CHARMING HUSBAND. 
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world of marshes. I took the chief of the Nuehr’s 
portrait, as he sat in my cabin on the Divan ; of 
course he was delighted. He exhibited his wife's 
arms and back covered with jagged scars, in reply 
to my question as to the use of the spiked iron 
bracelet. Charming people are these poor blacks ! as 
they are termed by English sympathisers; he was 
JOCTXAN, CHIEF OF THE. NUEHR TRIBE. 
quite proud of having clawed his wife like a wild 
beast. In sober earnest, my monkey “ Wallady ” looks 
like a civilized being compared to these Nuehr savages. 
The chiefs forehead was tattooed in horizontal lines 
that had the appearance of wrinkles. The hair is 
worn drawn back from the face. Both mep. and 
