Chap. XXII. 
MODES OF DEESSIXG THE HAIE. 
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an operation as some might imagine; for a tree was growing in a 
horizontal position across part of the stream^ and, there being no 
want of the tough climbing plants wliich admit of being knitted 
like ropes, Senhor P. soon constructed a bridge. The Loajima 
was here about twenty-five yards wide, but very much deeper 
than v/here I had crossed before on the shoulders of Mashauana. 
The last rain of this season had fallen on the 28th, and had sud¬ 
denly been followed by a gneat decrease of the temperature. The 
people in these parts seemed more slender in form, and then’ 
colour a lighter olive, than any we had liitherto met. The mode 
of dressing the great masses of woolly hair, wliich lay upon then* 
No. 1. A Londa lady's mode of wearing the hair. 
shoulders, together with their general features, again reminded 
me of the ancient Egyptians. Several were seen with the upward 
inchnation of the outer angles of the eyes, but this was not 
general. A few of the ladies adopt a cmdous custom of attaching 
the hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving it somewhat 
the appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin (wood- 
cut No, 1). Some have a small hoop behind that represented in 
the woodcut. Others wear an ornament of woven hair and hide 
adorned with beads. The hair of the tails of buffaloes, which 
are to be found further east, is sometimes added. This is 
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