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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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d isdressed with feathers and monkeys tails. Theskin of a wild-cat hangs about his neck. Theinsignia of his office is a fly-flapper made of thetail of some wild beast, which he afiixes to hisperson behind, as though it were a natural growth.This custom, which obtains also among the chiefsof some of the interior tribes, has probably givencurrency to the rumors, brought by Erench trav-elers from the coast, of a people having tails.No man is permitted to precede the Kirangozi.Trespassers are fined. About the time the last man has left thecamp, the travelers houses where they camp,and which are built of thatch, are generally seton fire by some careless or mischievous fellow,and with this excitement the caravan winds onits way in Indian file, each porter bearing uponhis shoulders or head a huge bundle, generallyabout six feet long by two in diameter, weigh-ing some seventy pounds. A INIganga, or med-icine man, always accompanies the party, butacts also a^ porter. The masters of the caravan
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IIEAD-rtRESSES OF THE WANYAMWEZI. A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE MOON. 631 luring up the rear to prevent desertion. Thebarbarian porters wear their worst clothes onthe journey. For head-dress some wear a filletof zebras skin, whose long hairs radiate out-ward like the gloria about a saints head. Skinsof the leopard and ocelot, ostrich feathers, andsometimes an ox-tail stuck perpendicularly uponthe forehead, are other ornaments. The arms are decorated with heavy bracelets of ivory, brass,or copper; their necks with beads or little stringsof bells. All carry arms : bows and arrows, as-segais, a knobstick, or a battle-axe borne uponthe shoulder. The recreations of the journeyare singing, whistling, shouting, blowing onhorns, imitations of the cries of birds and beasts,and the use of a certain slang, which is talked 632 HABPEES NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. only on the tramp. Hopa! Hopa! go on! theycry; Mgogolo! a stoppage! Food! food! Dontbe tired! Home is near! Hasten. Kirangozi!Oh, we see our mo

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