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long by half an inch broad : the latter is used to 
strike with if disarmed, and to tear with when wrestling 
with an enemy. Their shields are either of buffaloes’ 
hide or of giraffes’, the latter being highly prized as 
excessively tough although light, and thus combining 
the two requisite qualities of a good shield ; they are 
usually about four feet six inches long by two feet wide, 
COMMORO RUNNING TO THE FIGHT.- 
and are the largest I have seen. Altogether, everything 
in Latooka looks like fighting. 
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Although the men devote so much attention to 
their head-dress, the women are extremely simple. It 
is a curious fact, that while the men are remarkably 
handsome, the women are exceedingly plain;—they 
