The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-24
and wrapped around bits Q, dried banana

and wrapped around bits OF dried banana
leavea. and thus sold.
In ono corner OF the market arc the
butcher shops. All meat Is quite cheap,
buy there ia no cutting OF the carcassea
into steaks. chops and roasts. as at home.
Each butcher has the dead body and en-
trails OF ono animal lying before him.
They are usually spread on the bloody
skin OF the animal, which has been killed
chops and saws on little chunks Of meat.
according to order. and he cuts up the
entrails as his customers want them. The
demand for the latter is great that
for the meat itself.
Under a tree In the market court men
ana women arc selling fish, fresh and
piles of 1--WE. each the size OF sardne.
and they bring abou, ] cent pile. Near
Is brought 10 the market in closely woven
baskets. Other merchants are se!lng the
millet. unSround.
One OF the most popular places Is the
beer hall. This Is in the large market
house. and is crowded with customers.
The barkeepers are women. who sit nat
that are apparently filled with soapsuds.
but really with banana beer, which has
a foam somewhat Ike live lager. The
beer Is ladled. out into gourds, and the
customers take 1t away. sucking at 1t
through straws as they go. The liquor is
strong. and VIC frequently pass drunken
The Basuk1mns.
The natives here are known az the Ba-
look savage enough They are still more
SO out In the country. where the majority
dress In cowskins with the hair on. The
Women wear skirts OF such skins. and the
men fasten them over, their shoulders so
that they conceal little more than the up-
per parts OF tho body. Here in Mwansa
the waist. leaving the upper part OF the
body bare. Babies are carried on the bare
there by goatskin sings Sometimes they
| ar. tied on with cords.
The most Of the Basukumns are of. a i
well formed. but their skins are black or
very dark brown. and they have thick lips
and at n0ss ,h.v Thss heir Is wooy
dressing II. Some of the women shave
sections OF the scalp, and q man Will ofen
Of tin cup scraped off at the crown.
Sometimes this bare spot is covered with
scars m made BY cutting and gashing It to
perfectly bald. made SO by the razor. They
&, ease their heads. and they shine like
patent leather dress shoes.
MANY OF the women divide the hair into
small bratds, and evidently shave clean
the partings between them. Others twist
tho wool out into curls. which stand forth
like little worms all over the head.
They are like nngleworms, only, black.
lmagine thick-pped brunette Medusa.
YOU have the typical Basukuma beauty.
Some OF the moro giddy of the belles tie
shells and beads at the end OF these curls
SO that they almost Jingle astthey run.
I have looked in .yain for eyelashesr and
eyebrows. The Basukumas pull them out
with tweezers. The meh also pull TOUT
their boards by the roots In the same way
4R8 Natives Who File Their Teeth,
s ind that many OF the natives about
Lake Victoria beautiful themselves by 1hl-
lng their teeth. We have men from diner
ent parts OF, the lake now working at
my request the captain brought them up
on deck and allowed me to examine their
jaws, He took each native and held his y
mouth open whilesI looked over his teeth.
Some men had them filed sharp. so that
they look ed Just like the teeth OF a saw;
others had certain teeth missing, and was
told that they had been knocked out. on /
the belief that their absence would bring
good luck or ward off the bad spirits. This
Is SO among the Kavirondo who live on the I
northeast side OF the lake, They believe
that IL Q. man retains all his lower teeth
he will he killed In battle, and. that IL h.4
wife does not pull out the Two middle
trcntS ones OF the lower jaw he surely will Y
die. For the SANE reason the woman
makes scars In her forehead, and \ also
abdomen. The Nasal knock out the two
lower front teeth, and on the upper side of
Uganda. along the Nile. there are tribes
that pull out two orsmore oflthe lower m 4
cisors. This Is the case with the Ban
yoro, who 1--we west of Uganda. They ex-
tract the four lower front teeth, This
ynlnws the upper one 70 grow long, so
sAs,A they become shovel teeth In old age,
IN s.. s,@ FRANK G.sCARPENTERa