Their clothing consists of pieces of skin, hung loosely from the girdle in front and behind.

They plait their hair fantastically.

We saw some women coming with their hair woven into the form of a European hat, and it was only by a closer inspection that its nature was detected.

Others had it arranged in tufts, with a threefold cord along the ridge of each tuft; while others, again, follow the ancient Egyptian fashion, having the whole mass of wool plaited into cords, all hanging down as far as the shoulders.

This mode, with the somewhat Egyptian cast of countenance in other parts of Londa, reminded me strongly of the paintings of that nation in the British Museum.
We had now rain every day, and the sky seldom presented that cloudless aspect and clear blue so common in the dry lands of the south.