Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y, as seen by their strong well developed bodies, they suffer no lack of food. Sweet potatoes they grow in great abundance — it seems to be their staple food — their bread. A certain kind of millet, too, ground into flour and cooked in the form of a paste is eaten in great quantities. They are quite unconscious of their nudity; their husbands also prefer natures garb. Jan. 14th: Adorned with a crown of ostrich feathers and smeared with grease and lamp black to look blacker than his skin really is, a Kavirondo bridegroom rode through the village today, naked on a cow, which he is to present his bride. The belles of the village accompany him to the house of his future wife. Women as a rule smear themselves with hippopotamus fat, all over, before putting on a fine finish of lamp black. An unmarried man has no standing among these people, and, therefore, when the day comes for him to step into the bonds of matrimony he is overcome with pride and happiness. Saw the great young King of the Ya-Luo
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■Ii.■!. :-• ; I. I uderwood & Underwood, \. Y. KAVIRONDO WOMEN CULTIVATING THE GROUND. The Kavirondo People 279 adorned with an immense crown of black ostrich feathers, and two long colobus monkey tails hanging down from his shoulders and waist to denote his position. He commands an army of thousands of fierce-looking savages, armed with long dagger-pointed spears, protected with oval shaped shields, bent back on the sides to hide the flanks of the warrior. He wears a fantastic headdress, beautified with white ostrich feathers. His tribe represents one of the largest of the black-skinned nations of mid-Africa; also one of the most industrious. The Kavirondo and Wakikuyu have a future; while the Masai will probably die out by the advent of the white man's civilization. The Ya-Luo live chiefly by agriculture. They eat any kind of meat, even the crocodiles. The young warriors eat lion and leopard to make them courageous in war. These Victoria Nyanza aborigines have a superb war dance. The

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