Show an ali african villa illint illi ge gt as acu ecu by stan ley travelers Tn vElera front rum africa havo have often written about african villages vIllage ot yet et I 1 nm am sure few of tit at hoino have ever comprehended the reality I 1 now propose to jay jy it before them lit in this sketch ofa villa goin in the district of Uh tile village con consists slits of a number of low content conical grass huts ranged round it 11 circular coin crinnion loi ninon nion lit in tile center of which are anre three or four tig dicea kept for tile double purpose of supplying shado shade to tile tho coin community inutility inu tilty and birk cloth tu to the thief chief the doorways to tile tho lints huts are arc very low scarcely thirty indies inches high tile lle common fenced round by the ilia grass huts itutti shows tile OLli reous color of tile tho boll and it ii so will well trodden that not a grass grais hade blade thrives thriven upon it on presenting tho the corn com trion I 1 attracted out of doors tile owners and ordinary inhabitants of each eccli lot until I 1 round found myself ilia center population of naked men women children andini and drits though I 1 bud appeared here cicro for tile the purpose of studying the lie people of and making a treaty of friendship with the iho chief tile the villagers seemed to think till I 1 had find como come merely to make inako a freo free exhibition of nil self ai soma natural nii tural monstrosity st I 1 isia saw before befaro mo ino over a n hundred beings of the most degraded sen table opa it Is possible to ion con belve arid alij though I 1 knew quite bulto well that settle thousands of years ago the wretched humanity unit anil myself were one and the same a sneaking ene aking dl to believe it possessed tile mo strongly gly and I 1 would even eve i now BOW subs subscribe uribe somo small amount of silver lannoy brioney fur for film who could but assist mo ine to controvert cun the discreditable fact bilut common sense seio tills tells me file not to tako take into undue consideration their squalor their ug lincA or nakedness but to giago their ft true position among tile the human raco race by taking a view of the tha cultivated fields nil and gardens of and I 1 am ain coni coin belled to admit that these theao debased specimens of only plant and sow such vegetables ogi tables and grain ns as I 1 myself cultivate were I 1 compelled compel ltd to provide for my own busl busto cnance nance I 1 see too looi that their huts buts though of grass aro are almost as well made as ai tho lie materials will permit find and indeed I 1 havo have slept in worse speak with them in ili their own dialect of the law of and launt MUM and it will soon apper ar that they tire are intelligent enough upon that point moreover the muscles tissues and fibers of their bodies and all tile tha organs of sight night hearing smell or motion fire us well developed as n in ili uj only in ill table and judgment based upon larger experience in tho the power of expression in moral and intellectual cut culture lure are we superior I 1 strive therefore to interest myself in my gross grosi mid and rudely shaped brothers and sisters almoas bursting into it laugh ul at tile tho absurdity I 1 turn towards to urda an individual whose it ugo me g marks him film out its as out to botu Is due and say bay to him after efti r the common manner of 0 greeting sly my brother brot lier sit you down by me ine on this mat and let us bo be friendly and sociable arid and as I 1 say aay it 1 thrust into ills his wide open hand 20 0 cowries dowries cow ries tho the currency of the land ono one look at ills his hana as a lie extruded it made me think I 1 could carvo a better looking hand out of it piece ot of rhinoceros tilde while speaking I 1 look at his bli face which Is like an ugly and ex e trava gant maak clumsily manufactured from some stra stratigo tige dark brown courso material tho the lips proved tha thickness of skill which nature had endowed win him with and ana by tile lie obstinacy ob with which they refused mused to mod each cac 1 I other tho the form of the mouth was hut but ill defined though capacious and garnished with its full compliment ot of well preserved teeth ills nose was so ott flat that I 1 inquired in a i per perfectly Netly innocent nia ritter as to the reason of such a feature built bald lie he with alth a shy laugh it ills Is the fault of my illy mother who when I 1 was nas young bound mo me too tight to her back ills hair had boon compelled to obey tile the capricious capr lilous fashion of ills his country and wai wa therefore worked up in burro burrows ws and bill I 1 ridges find and central cones bearing it a curious resemblance to ti the formation of the land around I 1 wonder if the art grew by perceiving natures fashion and the mould of ills his countey descending from tile tho face I 1 which crude largo featured roughhewn rough hewn hown as it was bore 1 witness I mess to tho the possession of much shy humor iud kindly disposition my eyes fastened on ills hh naked body ough the daubs I 1 detected defected strange freaks or of prickling on oil it of circles and squares square and crosses and traced with wonder the ilia tinny many haid liand lines and puckers created by ago age weather ill usage and rude keehln keep ln Z ilia feet were monstrous abortions with soles sole as ai hard as hoofe anti and iiii hh legs as high up us its the knees were plastered erod with successive strata of dirt ills lolli cover or tile tho queer girding tackle need not be Is he scribed ascribed bed they were absolutely up lip palling to good taste and the most ragged british beggar or neapolitan luz lazzarone Is sumptuously nay i A gaily clothed in comparison to tills this king in ul lombo if the old chief appeared so no how din can I 1 paint without my humbler brothers brother and sand als la 13 lera who stood blood rou round nil us As I 1 looked at tho array ot of faces I 1 could only prominent romi nent to myself ugly uglier ugliest AsI looked at their nude arid and filthy bodies and the enormous lugs duta which hung down the bosoms of the women and the ilia gene lill in decency ilece ncy of their naked nakedness I 1 ejaculated fearfully Fearful illy ll os ia tile the bum buin total of what I 1 inight with propriety say and what indeed la Is sufficiently de scrip tive live |