THE KIBOSO WARRIORS. 
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moderate size and workmanship, short swords and 
knob-kerries, and large oval shields. Their different 
methods of doing the hair were curious. Some wore it 
bound up with grass in short pigtails, here hanging 
over the forehead and there about the cheeks; while 
others, having allowed it to grow about twelve inches 
long, tied it up in a bunch at the roots, from which 
they plaited a number of small tassels. Others, again, 
preferred a modification of our own greatest atrocity 
in the form of a natural head-dress, and built up, with 
the aid of an extra amount of grease and clay, a 
chignon which might have made the reputation of 
any European artiste a few years ago. This some of 
the more particular dandies protect with a skin bag 
during inclement weather. Their countenances, though 
ugly enough, were good-natured, and the ears were 
disfigured by stretching, and the teeth, in many cases, 
filed. 
After greeting us cordially and delivering a few 
polite sentences of welcome, the chief, with the best 
of manners, retired with all his men to a distance of 
about two hundred yards, to enable us to pitch our 
camp without impediment, and there, squatting on the 
ground, waited patiently till that performance was 
completed, before returning to settle themselves in a 
compact semicircle round our tents. 
Amongst the crowd were a few W’Arusha and Masai, 
who had come to effect a treaty of alliance with the 
Sina. We therefore seized the occasion to state how 
some of their countrymen had treated us, and asked 
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