The Far Interior a Narrative of Travel And Adventure From the Cape of Good Hope
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This they do at night by staking out long lines of nets, towards which they drive the game so as to become entangled in the snare, and render the capture an easy task. The Mashona say that the nets are sufficiently strong to stop an eland, the heaviest antelope in Africa. The rhi- noceros and elephant, however, make playful havoc with the obstruction. The nets are very neatly made from the bark of the machabele-tree, extensively used by these people for many purposes, which I will endeavour to ...explain in succeeding pages of the present book. The Mashona is careless of his person generally, with the exception of his head, covered with curly and crisp hair, which he loves to adorn in a manner that shows no incon- siderable degree of skill and even taste. Artistic arrangement is rarely absent, and the observer is forced to acknowledge their power in the department of hair-dressing. The women are the adorners and barbers. With a pointed piece of bone they divide the hair into a great variety of fantastic * I 2 116 THE FAB INTERIOR.
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