Stretched on the platform, side by side and crowded close, lay a score of blacks.

That they were low in the order of human life was apparent at a glance.

They were man-eaters.
Their faces were asymmetrical, bestial; their bodies were ugly and ape- like.

They wore nose-rings of clam-shell and turtle-shell, and from the ends of their noses which were also pierced, projected horns of beads strung on stiff wire.

Their ears were pierced and distended to accommodate wooden plugs and sticks, pipes, and all manner of barbaric ornaments.