Blonde Hair And White People Immediately Lost Their Attractions, And The
Crowd Turned Their Attention To Beef - We Gave Them To Understand That
We Required Flour, Beans, And Sweet Potatoes In Exchange.
The market soon went briskly, and whole rows of girls and women arrived,
bringing baskets filled with the desired provisions.
The women were
neatly dressed in short petticoats with a double skirt-many exposed the
bosom, while others wore a piece of bark cloth arranged as a plaid
across the chest and shoulders. This cloth is the produce of a species
of fig tree, the bark of which is stripped off in large pieces and then
soaked in water and beaten with a mallet: in appearance it much
resembles corduroy, and is the colour of tanned leather; the finer
qualities are peculiarly soft to the touch, as though of woven cotton.
Every garden is full of this species of tree, as their cultivation is
necessary for the supply of clothing; when a man takes a wife he plants
a certain number of trees, that are to be the tailors of the expected
family.
The market being closed, the canoe was laden with provisions, and sent
across to our hungry people on the other side the river.
The difference between the Unyoro people and the tribes we had hitherto
seen was most striking. On the north side of the river the natives were
either stark naked, or wore a mere apology for clothing in the shape of
a skin slung across their shoulders:
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