8 AMONG THE PAGANS OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN for it is on them that most of the hard work falls. Theirs it is to fetch the water, collect the firewood, milk the cows, pound and cook the durra, work in the fields and thatch the huts, and so long as they are useful to the men they are well treated, and have quite a large amount of influence (not always for good) over their men folk. A man may have as many wives as he can afford to buy, isually paying for them in cattle or sheep.

CROSSING A RIVER IN THE DINKA COUNTRY