The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-08
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lis regulated by the government, which
| charges the natives &c cents for enough
wood to build one hut.
In addition to the huts, each family
!! has two or three Sranaries to keep
Its winter supply of Indian corn. These
are made with wicker walls and wicker
floors. and are raised foot or eigh-
teen inches off the ground. They are
usually about as big around as
hogshead and six feet in height. They
have matched roofs.
What They Eat.
The Wakikuyu are practically vege,
tarians. They live on corn, beans.
sweet potatoes and a kind of mitlet.
They have few cattle and some sheep,
but they consider them too valuable
to be killed. and they only eat them
when the cattle are sick or become in
jured in some way and have to be
killed. They have no chickens. and eat
neither fowls nor eggs. The reason for
this is that chickens crow. and in the
past the locality of a village could be
told by the cocks and thereby brought
down its enemies and the slave traders
upon 1T.
These peopls have many dishes like
Ours They eat roasting ears off the
cob. ana they boil beans and corn to-
seiher. making KIND Of succotash.
They have also cruel made of nillet
and milk and il one of the family be-
comes sick they sometimes give him
mutton broth. In their cooking they
use clay jars, which they rest upon
stenes and build fires under them
They Use sourds for carrying milk
/ and wafer. and make bags of woven
bark ranging in fize from a pint to
| four bushels Alch bags are used
for all sorts Of purposes. and the
I larger ones serve for the franspor-
t2tlon OF their grain to the markets
Wives Worth Money.
| The Wakikuyu looks upon the fe-
| male OF his faIIls az so much available
capital L ,masa ,ha. fifteen or TWEEN
beyond the dreams OF ayartce. / am
| told that many OF the chefs have (,
/ dozen o. more, and that since the Brit
ASH have begun 70 exploit the forests.
4 have been RAPIDLY Increasing their
families. a good girl. large and
! healthy- VIII bring as aueh as flrtY
sheep, and man may pay down ten
/ sheep and agree 70 bring in The bal
| ance from month to month as he
| and his wives earn them He goes
/ into the woods and cut down trees.
I being paid so much per stick III n
man works hard, he may make SIZE
or !l-5o month. and II. in addition.
he has several women to help him.
MS income may be doubled or trnbled.
In such work the men cut the wood
4 and the women carry II on their
backs 10 the market. They arc load
Led up by their husbands, a niece of
EEoatskin separating the rough sticks
prom the %omen'a bare skin. The bur
Z q
Which rests on the forehead In addi-
tion TO this goat skin on her back.
1.-THE woman usually has an anron orr
EKkirt of skin, which is tied about tile
waist and reaches to the knees and
ksometimes below them. A good lustv
sirl can carry as much as 200 pounds
For wood in this way, and her hus-
band does not scruple to load her wifi,
J all she, will take.
MADE some Inquiries as to tho prices
OF such women, and | am told tina,
girl is supposed TO be ready 10,
sale al twelve years. and that 500
Y, IN cattle or sheen Is an average price
tor this sum the woman should be
q iarge. Wen formed aud fairly good
81 looking. Ugly girls and lean girls re
shtap and some such are often UNI
married, In Which case they have tc
work for their parents.
III Irent Railroad Thieves,
saw half-do2cn Nandi. including
tWo women. at one of the stations be
NWeen mere and the I1scarpnlcnt rle
y, men We're almost naked, save that they
I wore ctoaks OF monkey skins with the
# lnr on and strips of cowskn about the
clothes and blankets OF cowhIdes tan,
ned with the hair on These Markets
@ere fastened over one shoulder leav-
me me arms and half Of the breasts
"A she. railroad track, and we're clnsni,
Il watched by the station agents / mn,
void they are great thieves, and tbat
II me British have had trouble with then,
III which hold the rails 10 the lies NM,
& even climb the telegram poles ~
steal the wire The women ! snu. M
spiiS OF brass wire around their neck
III snn arms and long coils of similar
wire Tied to strings In their ears H.
Al thetr oWn country telegranh wiz
( erings big price az jeweiry ana tbo,
loaE upon TIE strands of iron stretch.