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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very war-like but now their energyis mostly given to the cultivation of the soil and tocattle raising. Those that live close to the greatlake spend a lot of their time in fishing, and inhunting the big hippopotami of whose meat theKavirondo are so fond. Fish is cured or smokedand used as an article of barter for sweet potatoes,peas, pumpkins and pottery. Savage, blood-thirsty, in war paint, armed withsharp, long spears the women used to follow theirmen in a sudden attack before daybreak upon someneighbouring tribe, and if successful they gatheredthe dead bodies of the slain to feast upon. To en-courage the men they danced and yelled in front ofthem with ferocious madness. The men would thenbegin to tremble all over with savage excitement,and, crazed by the thirst of blood, they would rushout furiously, jumping high up in the air with spearand shield in hand, raising a war yell, and by itattempting to drive the fear of death into the heartsof the enemy. The women at that moment becom-
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Photograph by Peter Dutkewich, copyright, 1909, by Underwood & Lnderwood, N. Y. THE PECULIAR HEAD-DRESSES OF THE KAVIRONDO WARRIORS. The Kavirondo People 281 ing very desperate would howl like a pack of hun-gry hyenas for the carcasses of their slain foes.They are cannibals. After the fight the womenwould bake the dead upon red hot stones for thewarriors to feast upon. There are some splendid types of Kavirondomaidens and women in Equatorial Africa. Theyrepresent the most beautifully formed womenamong all the tribes inhabiting the shores of theVictoria Nyanza. The maidens after marriage dis-card the small screen they wear in the front, butkeep the short tail behind. Sometimes we see adainty belle wearing a crown made of wild boarteeth smeared from head to feet with lamp blackmixed with hippopotamus fat to look blacker thanshe really is. In the civilized world the fair sex put ricepowder upon the face to look white, while in raid-Africa coal black women powder themselves witha blac

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