The life and labors of David Livingstone, LL. D., D.C.L., covering his entire career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully prepared from the most authentic sources...The whole rendered clear and (14801962323)

Identifier: lifelaborsofdavi1875cham (find matches)
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Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Chambliss, J. E
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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the thick lips and flat noses,but instances of the ugly negro physiognomy are rarely to beseen. They have a singular fashion of marking themselves,from the roots of the hair on the forehead to the tip of the nose,by little raised cicatrices about a quarter of an inch in length. The women here are in the habit of piercing the upper lip,and gradually enlarging the orifice until they can insert a shell.The lip then appears drawn out beyond the perpendicular of thenose, and gives them a most ungainly aspect. Sekwebu re-marked, l These women want to make their mouths like thoseof ducks; and, indeed, it does appear as if they had the ideathat female beauty of lip had been attained by the Orniihorhyn-chus paradoams alone. This custom prevails throughout thecountry of the Maravi, and no one could see it without confes-sing that fashion had never led women to a freak more mad. Thee is a remarkable absence of deformities. There is ahorror of everything which is out of the apparent order of na-
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