FROM SAY TO BUSSA 441 narrow tuft of hair left on the top. They have the peculiar custom of dyeing their legs up to above the knee with rocou or red dye, which gives them the appearance at a distance of wearing nothing but light red stockings.

This was the first occasion on which I had seen people in a state of nudity in the Sudan, and this is the more remarkable as there are plenty of stuffs to be had cheap at Rupia.

DJIDJIMA.

Noticing my astonishment, one of the beauties of the place made the following nalfve remark to me, which I thought was really rather sensible : " Why should we wear clothes } Are we so badly made that we need hide ourselves } All in good time, when we are old like our mothers, we will make up for the loss of our physical advantages by well-made clothes, but not till then."

Many are the women on this earth of ours who could not say as much !

A little mollified by what my young friend said, I still