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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
minutes before bad been well-nigh whimpering with 
fear. 
Some of his soldiers who had just arrived wore the 
most extraordinary war costumes, evidently designed 
to strike terror into their foes. Most of them had, as 
a good foundation, plastered their skins with red ochre 
and mutton fat, and on this had drawn, especially 
about the face, most ludicrous designs in white—white 
rings round the eyes, or white spots on their cheeks. 
This gave them a look like an English clown, with a 
dash of the typical bogey that haunts the dream of 
every childhood. On their heads were crescents made 
of ostrich feathers, or caps of the Colobus monkey skin. 
This last-mentioned animal (Colobus Gueresa , var. nov. 
Oaudatus) also supplied them with mantles of long 
black and white fur, and contributed the heavily 
plumed tails which these Gaga soldiers fixed on to 
that portion of their body where tails should rightly 
appear if man had not dispensed with such appendages. 
Some of the men wore thick capes of kites’ feathers 
round the shoulders, and not a few had tied round the 
head masks of ghastly ugliness, with a double face, 
looking behind and before. They were all very excited 
about their exploits, and many screamed out hysteri¬ 
cally in high falsetto voices. One unusually quiet man 
was pointed out to me as a great hero. It was said 
that, being surprised collecting firewood in the forest, 
and attacked by three of the enemy with spears and 
swords, he had succeeded in parrying their blows with 
a wooden stake, had disarmed them, and killed them 
all three. 
Whilst we stood listening to this clamour two 
soldiers staggered in, a ghastly sight, streaming with 
blood, though their wounds were not serious, and they 
