CHAPTER XVII. 
Chief Sina—An oath ratified—The bodyguard—Wa-kiboso villages— 
Extraordinary native engineering operations—A fruitless search for 
game—A magnificent forest — Ascent of Kilima-njaro—A Kiboso 
market-place—A false alarm—Fairy forests—The saddle connecting 
Ivibo and Kimawenzi. 
Chief Sina, who seemed shy and nervous, is a stout 
man about forty years of age, of medium height, with a 
countenance by no means unpleasing. He was clothed 
in a flowing robe of striped cotton dotted with blue 
and red spots and embroidered with beads, and his 
wrists, neck, and ankles were loaded with copper, 
brass, and iron rings, and finely-wrought chains, while 
his fingers were adorned with many rings of a white 
metal set with light blue beads, producing the effect of 
turquoises. The head-gear was quite a masterpiece, 
consisting of a wig, made of interwoven grass and seeds, 
from which were suspended little ornaments of brass 
and ivory cut in rings and triangles. He was unarmed, 
but attended by a gun-bearer who carried the old 
double-barrel gun with which Martin had presented 
him on his first visit. The warriors were all more 
or less decorated with iron and copper coils of wire, 
fine iron chains, beads, and sweet-smelling grass-seed 
necklaces, the latter somewhat resembling Christian 
or Moslem rosaries. The bodyguard carried spears of 
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