Identifier: wondersoftropics00nort (find matches)
Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES. 653: very handsome. He mentions two Nyambo girls, who, in the bloom ofyouth, sat together with their arms affectionately twined round eachothers neck, and, when asked to separate that they might be sketched,their arms were dropped at once, showing their necks and busts to be ofthe finest form. Their woolly hair was combed out, and raised up fromthe forehead and over their ears by a broad band from the skin of a milk-white cow, which contrasted strangely with their transparent, light-copperskins. The Waha women are like them, having tall, erect, gracefulfigures and intelligent features.
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SOCIAL AMUSEMENT AMONG THE WEEZEES. An Arab trader, whom they had met, had sixty wives, who lived to-gether in a double-poled tent, with which he always travelled. One ofthem was a Watusi, a beautiful tall girl, with large, dark eyes, and thesmallest mouth and nose, with thin lips and small hands. Her noblerace will never become slaves, preferring death to slavery. Inside each Weezee village there is a club-house, or iwansa, as it iscalled. This is a structure much larger than those which are used fordwelling-houses, and is built in a different manner. One of these 5,54 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. iwansas, which was visited by Captain Grant, was a long, low room,twelve by eighteen feet, with one door, a low; flat roof, well blackenedwith smoke, and no chimney. Along its length there ran a high inclinedbench, on which cow-skins were spread for men to take their seats.Huge drums were hung in one corner, and logs smouldered on the floor. Into this place strangers are ushered when they first

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