How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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The Women Are As Beautiful As The Men Are Handsome.
They Have Clear Ebon Skins, Not Coal-Black, But Of
An inky hue.
Their ornaments consist of spiral rings of brass pendent from the
ears, brass ring collars about the
Necks, and a spiral cincture
of brass wire about their loins for the purpose of retaining
their calf and goat skins, which are folded about their bodies,
and, depending from the shoulder, shade one half of the bosom,
and fall to the knees.
The Wahehe may be styled the Romans of Africa. Resuming our
march, after a halt of an hour, in foul hours more we arrived at
Mukondoku Proper. This extremity of Ugogo is most populous, The
villages which surround the central tembe, where the Sultan Swaruru
lives, amount to thirty-six. The people who flocked from these to
see the wonderful men whose faces were white, who wore the most
wonderful things on their persons, and possessed the most wonderful
weapons; guns which "bum-bummed" as fast as you could count on
your fingers, formed such a mob of howling savages, that I for an
instant thought there was something besides mere curiosity which
caused such commotion, and attracted such numbers to the roadside.
Halting, I asked what was the matter, and what they wanted, and
why they made such noise? One burly rascal, taking my words for
a declaration of hostilities, promptly drew his bow, but as
prompt as he had fixed his arrow my faithful Winchester with
thirteen shots in the magazine was ready and at the shoulder,
and but waited to see the arrow fly to pour the leaden messengers
of death into the crowd.
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