48 the KYTCII TRIBE. [chap. i. 
mantle was merely slung over Ms shoulders, and all 
other parts of his person were naked. His daughter 
was the best-looking girl that I have seen among 
the blacks; she was about sixteen. Her clothing 
consisted of a little piece of dressed hide about 
a foot wide slung across her shoulders, all other 
parts being exposed. All the girls of this country 
wear merely a circlet of little iron jingling orna- 
CH1EF OF KYTCH AND DAUGHTER. 
ments round their waists. They came in numbers, 
bringing small bundles of wood to exchange for a 
few handfuls of corn. Most of the men are tab, 
but wretchedly thin; the children are mere skeletons, 
and the entire tribe appears thoroughly starved. The 
language is that of the Dinka. The chief carried a 
curious tobacco-box, an iron spike about two feet long, 
