The morning call., 1890-07-27


is taken:
The Nasal tribes, who inhabit the rich
volcanic country east of the Victoria Ny
ANA, are among the most interesting peo-
pie in Central Africa. They are not ne
groes; they have good cranial development,
straight. well-shaped noses, eyes with a
slight Monaghan slant upward, prominent
cheek-bones, jaws rarely prognathous,
chocolate-cOlored skins and extremely we'll
proportioned limbs Both men and women
elongate the lobes Of the ear by ear-stretch-
ers till they nearly reach to the shoulders,
and their fists can be put through the ORR
fee in the distended part. The chief
achievements of the young Nasal men or
warriors seem to be to make eloquent
speeches and to commit murder. In
ternecine wars have depopulated their
country. and their ferocious attacks on
caravans have mad Nasal Land both the
terror and the terra incOgnita of travellers.
Til they marry the young men feed on milk
and flesh food, and smoking and chewing
tobacco and drinking fermented liquors are
strictly forbidden. Before setting out on
fighting excursion the warriors retire to
the mountains and gorge themselves with
beef, with the idea that they thereby store
up slItuSlls AJltl llCg oNtN 'N6-
etables to their food, and they then chew
tobacco and indulge in an occasional ca
rouse. The married men and women live
in kraals apart, and the unmarried girls
and warriors live together i'll other villages
by themselves, in state OF promlscuous
free love. The women are completely
clothed in dressed hides, and are as I'M
moral as the men are arrogant and Zero
lgNtr thl rIrIl
of a corpse, as they think it will poison the
soil. and it is therefore cast to the VIII
beasts without ceremony.
They have no religion and no beilet IN
future, but are extremely suspicious ana
have complete belief in witchcraft. 1homp-
son, the traveller, the first European TO
traverse the country of this terrible Nasal,
did SO by posing as a great white wizard by
the aid of an electrical machine, an artl-
fetal set of teeth removed at VIII, and En0S
lruit salt, which, on being made to tlLz at
the firing of gun, would, II was alleged,
work wonders ten days after he had lett.
To spit Oh a person is to confer the great
est mark of respect. Where the Nasal have,
as the result OF warfare, been Obliged TO
settle and mix with other tribes, and nave
been cut off from the evil
TRADITIONS OF THEIR RACE.
Their superior mental development has re-
suited IN producing hybrid tribes dislin-
guished for their energy in trade and their
good government. This experience Is en-
couraged at the present moment when we
are making arrangements to take these
wild tribes under our protection.
The Wa-karirondo, WHO live north Of the
savage Nasal, are cultivators OF tue soil ana
are vegetarian people. lhey nave less
fine physique and less fer0clty OF DISPOSE
ton than the Nasal. The men 90 absolute
" nude; the women wear necklace and
a SMILE" and sometimes cotton tail; but
though unclothed they are as distinguished
for their modesty and virtue as the draped
Nasal women are for their audaclty and
vice. They are fond OF dancing, in which
violent muscular movements of the arms
and shoulders form the principal part.
The Waganda may be said to be the
French of Central Africa. They are people
with ideas and they lead the fashions. a
race which prides itself on descent from re-
mote white progenitors, the Waganda stand
out, by reason of their elaborate system Of
autOcratic government, their laws and GUS
toms which control ali the affairs OF lie,
even the amount OF bare leg permissible at
court; their higher CIVILIZATION, which Is
shown in their dress, houses and sanitary
arrangements-as distinct and separate from
the naked sayageS which surround Uganda,
1.-THE pearl of Central Africa. The Emper-
or Mtesa, with his barharlc court
ANA, his arrogance and cruelty,
his intelligence and eager desire to learn, his
vast armies and his huge harem, has been
described by Spoke and Stanley with such
minuteness and brilliancy that his name
and character will never be forgotten. The
Waganda are extremely intelligent, and the
missionaries who followed in Stanley's
steps and established station at Uganda
tell wonderful stories Of individual con-
verts WHO quickly learned to read the Bible
in their DatlYe tongue, and to write capital
letters and who even suffered cruel martyr
frr fbpir Iaith Dnt all who have had
anything to do with these people agree that,
as whole, they are crafty, lying, murder
Gus thieves. Both men and women are
draped in bark cloth, and immodnsty is
crime. The dwellings are clean. The
banana and plantains are the staple articles
Of food,
THE sAVoRY COOKING
OF which is practiced. The Waganda are
very skiiful with their fingers, and in the
making of shields, spears and canoes they
excel all other African tribes. They are
extremely fond of music and have a num-
Der of musical instruments. Indeed, so
fond are all the African races of music
that, in Sir Samuel Bakers opinion, man
who plays the cornet, or an 0Tgan-grinder,
could pass unframed from one end OF
Africa to the other, and that missionary,
to be successful, ought to be able to dance
a Jig and play the bagpipes. Women in
Uganda are mere baggage and all wives
have their price.
The Wanyamwezi, who have become the
trusted porters, or pagazis, OF all exploring
parties or trade caravans Tito the interior,
are people of great endurance and
physical strength, and are docle, courage
Gus and obedient if well led. A curious
custom prevails among the Watelta of coat
ing the body with lampblack and castor oil,
which acts as protection against excessive
heats by day and chills a. night.
The canuibals of the Congo, whom STAN
lev was the first to discover and visit, and
who pursued him and his followers all
down the great river with yells and cries Of
Meat! meat! ain, we shall have meat to-
day. show, in spite Of their horrible tastes,
a somewhat high standard of achievement
in the building Ut their houses and canoes,
the smelling of metals and ornamenting OF
weapons, etc.
The pigmies of the forests of Central
Africa are mentioned by Herodotus, and
have been spoken of, mostly by hearsay, by
nearly all African travellers, but Du Chaillu
was the first 10 give an account OF them and
their settlements, and to obtain measure
ments OF their bodies aud heads. Those de-
scrbed by him were the Obongos of Asian
go-and. They are of extremely low type,
with exceedingly low and narrow fureheads,
in height about feet inches, and with the
body covered with tufts Of hair
In some parts of the great central forest
the dwarfs seem to be hunted and eaten by
the more powerful tribes. and Stanley de-
scribes how the villages of the Congo are
ornamented with the skulls OF what the na-
tves called "Sokos," who, they said, were
hairy dwarfs who lived in the forest, and
whom they hunted, killed and ate, because
they stole their bananas. Stanley obtained
two Soko skulls, and brought them home
and submitted them to Professor Huxley,
who declared that they we're human skulls,
with all the
CHARACTERISTIC IRREGULARITIES
OF the negro type, including well-marked
but not unusual degree of prOgnathism.
The cephalic index was IS.
In Western Equatorial Africa the tribes
are not caunibal south of the equator. The
tribes are split into clans, each clan being
presided over by chief or father, under
whose protection they live. The powerful
King and the despotic form of government
of Eastern Africa are unknown. The law
of the strongest does not prevail. and
they do not raid for plumber Polyga-
my and slavery prevail here as elseN here
in Africa. They understand the arts of
weaving and smelling metals. but how they