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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

CHAPTER VII
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Provisions here were abundant--hawked about by the people, who wore a very neat skin kilt strapped round the waist, but otherwise were decorated like the Wanyamuezi.

It was difficult to say who were of true breed here, for the intercourse of the natives with the Wahuma and the Wanyamuezi produced a great variety of facial features amongst the people.

Nowhere did I ever see so many men and women with hazel eyes as at this place.
In the evening, an Uganda man, by name N'yamgundu, came to pay his respects to us.

He was dressed in a large skin wrapper, made up of a number of very small antelope skins: it was as soft as kid, and just as well sewn as our gloves.

To our surprise the manners of the man were quite in keeping with his becoming dress.


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