'Considering the intense curiosity of civilized humanity to know something of its fellow-men in the state so-called of nature, of the savages which now represent our remote ancestors, I proceed to sketch the typical tribe of this part of Africa...The name 'Wanyika' means People of the Nyika, or wild land...The favourite standing position is cross-legged, a posture unknown to Europe, sometimes the sole of one foot is applied to the ankle or to the knee of the other leg...The male dress is a tanned skin or a cotton coth tied round the waist, strips of hairy cow-hide are bound like garters, or the 'hibás' of the Bedawin Arabs, below the knee, and ostrich and other feathers are stuck in the tufty poll. The ornaments are earrings of brass and iron wire, and small metal chains: around the neck and shoulders, arms and ankles, hang beads, leather talisman-cases, and 'ghost-chairs' - the latter usually some article difficult to obtain, for instance, a leopard's claw...Abroad the Manyika carries his bow and long skin-quiver full of reed arrows...his shield is a flat strip of cowhide doubled or trebled. He has also a spear, a knife at his waist for cutting cocoa-nuts, a Rungu or knobstick is his girdle behind, and a long sword, half sheathed, and sharpened near the point. He hangs round his neck a gourd sneeze-mull...he also slings to his back a dwarf three-legged stool...' (Zanzibar, II, pp. 80-98)

For the sketch of Mhomani-Shamba and Ras Betáni on the reverse, see the note to the previous lot