PHYSIQUE OF THE NUERS 253 has vogue at home. The Hues of chest and abdomen, though on the side of shghtness, are perfect, and the marking of each series of muscles, and of the external divisions of the body, are distinctly yet dehcately pronounced. The exception lies in the lower leg, which is invariably poor, in common with, perhaps, the majority of African blacks ; and in general they fall short in one important particular, which produces inevitable disappointment, the whole system of build being detracted from by the spareness of the flesh-covering, resulting in an undeveloped and almost wasted appearance. Recollection wanders back to the great statue of David at Florence, to feel the greatest representation of power and beauty, and it is realized that the essential difference between the ancient statue and the living model before us lies, not merely in the better development of muscles and lower extremities, the shorter limbs, and the absence of coarseness in feet and hands, but in the nobility bestowed on mere outward form by the expression of mind, as well as of matter, which is evidenced in the great sculptor's marble.

Arrived once again at Kwoin, the fruit of our previous calls was immediately apparent. Not so many months before this visit the approach of a steamer was the signal for man, woman, and child, to bolt far out of reach. Now a small group of black figures awaited us on the bank by the grove of deleb palms. Belal and one Faragallah—distinct from the Dinka bahaii—were our interpreters, being