Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — An African Chief. [ARTICLE]

An African Chief.

Kambombo is a tall fellow about fifty. He was seated on a mat, dressed with the usual loin-cloth, head shaved, but wore a tight-fitting cap of plaited cord, a bunch of small buckhorns about three Inches long, sewn to the cap just over his forehead; he had a snuffbox, the beautifully beaten Iron of which shone as though it were silver, also an isanje, a musical Instrument, upon which he played very well. His favorite wife sat near him on the mat, her hair daubed with clay and fat, in which some very nice skewers of copper. iron and ivory were stuck; she had beaded bracelets, and wore in her upper lip an immense iron-dish ornament holding as much as a champagne glass; her under lip was studded with an ivory peg: she is a hideous creature, but the chief thinks much of her; she had a girl attending her pipe, which she had to smoke out of the corner of her mouth because of the Up adornment. I noticed that inferior strangers in approaching the chief first squatted, then lay down on the right side in front of the chief as evidence of Obeisance, which he acknowledged by a slight grunt and a nod.—Century. In France a man can secure a divorce from his wife if she goes on the stage