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AFRICAN ROYALTY VIEWED IN THE INTIMACY OF PRIVATE LIFE
| Seated in the deck chair, with his dog behind it, is Sukada, Sultan of Loka. On his right is his brother. The large lady on his left, dressed in bangles, is his head wife. In the background, equally décolletées, are other wives of less importance |
HOMESTEAD OF CONSERVATIVE TRIBE IN BAHR-EL-GHAZAL
| The Dinkas are remarkable for their height and slender limbs and figures, but are not of such fine physique as their neighbors, the Shilluks. They are a passive people, and have suffered much from the depredations of slave-traders and Dervishes. Unenterprising and ignorant, they are loath to adopt any modern innovation, simply on the pretext that it was not the custom of their fathers |