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her neck, bracelets on both arms and both ankles.
Around her loins was one string of beads to which
was suspended a triangular piece of skin
like an apron about four or five inches in depth.
She had a harmonican and was pretending to
play on it and dance to her own music. I
never saw a cunninger sight. She sat down
and when she arose her little bronze[spankers ?]
had become white with dust. She looked like the following
but did not have quite so much on.

[A blank Space on left hand side of page may be where there was meant to be a drawing]

Small children
dressed only in
a very tiny apron
came to the
stations after
and were always
beautifully modeled.
At one point
a little girl had
diamond earrings,
or something which resembled
them, and a loin apron.

We passed from Mafeking
to Bulawayo through the Becuanaland [Bechuanaland] Protectorate
and from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls through
the Matabeleland. There was a decided difference
in feature but none in costume. Near Vryburg,
is Tigers Kloof which is a large native school. There nature

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her neck, bracelets on both arms and both ankles.
Around her loins was one string of beads to which
was suspended a triangular piece of skin
like an apron about four or five inches in depth.
She had a harmonican and was pretending to
play on it and dance to her own music. I
never saw a cunninger sight. She sat down
and when she arose her little bronze[spankers ?]
had become white with dust. She looked like the following
but did not have quite so much on.

[A blank Space on left hand side of page may be where there was meant to be a drawing]

Small children
dressed only in
a very tiny apron
came to the
stations after
and were always
beautifully modeled.
At one point
a little girl had
diamond earrings,
or something which resembled
them, and a loin apron.

We passed from Mafeking
to Bulawayo through the Becuanaland [Bechuanaland] Protectorate
and from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls through
the Matabeleland. There was a decided difference
in feature but none in costume. Near Vryburg,
is Tigers Kloof which is a large native school. There nature