'We only want to look at your houses and your--well, at all you've got here, and then we shall return to our own place, and tell of all that we have seen so that your name may be famed.' Cyril's speech didn't keep the crowd from pressing round and looking as eagerly as ever at the clothing of the children.

Anthea had an idea that these people had never seen woven stuff before, and she saw how wonderful and strange it must seem to people who had never had any clothes but the skins of beasts.

The sewing, too, of modern clothes seemed to astonish them very much.

They must have been able to sew themselves, by the way, for men who seemed to be the chiefs wore knickerbockers of goat-skin or deer-skin, fastened round the waist with twisted strips of hide.

And the women wore long skimpy skirts of animals' skins.