idst of them live the Baganda who wear much clothing.
The women are covered from the waist to the ankles; the men from the
neck to the ankles, except porters and men working in the fields. They
provide decent latrines and have good sanitary usages as to the
surroundings of their houses. They are very polite and courteous. This
character and their dress are accounted for by their long subjection to
tyranny. They are "profoundly immoral," have indecent dances, and are
dying out on account of the "exhaustion of men and women by premature
debauchery."[1457] The Kavirondo are naked, but are, "for negroes, a
moral race, disliking real indecency and only giving way to lewd actions
in their ceremonial dances, where indeed the intention is not immodest,
as the pantomime is a kind of ritual."[1458]

+462. Ornament and simplest dress.+ The notion of ornament is
extremely vague. Things were attached to the body as amulets or
trophies. Then the bodies which had nothing of this kind on them
seemed bare and naked. Next objects were worn in order to comply
with a type, without the character of amulets or trophies. These
were ornaments. Hagen[1459] noticed, in his own experience, that
ornament did away with the appearance of nakedness. The same
effect of tattooing may be noticed, even in pictures. The oldest
Chinese tradition asserts that dress was originally for
ornament.[1460] "To the grass-land negroes of North Kamerun dress
of any kind is only ornament or protection against severe
weather." Their conversation on certain subjects is gross,
perhaps because they are entirely unclothed.[1461] The Doko women
wear a few strings of beads hanging from a girdle, and the girls
of the Dime wear one, two, or three ivory cylinders hanging from
the waist, but nothing more.[1462] The Xosa wear an ornamented
girdle, but no apron.[1463] The unmarried women in the Temu
districts of Togo wear strings of beads but no dress. The Moslem
women make triangular aprons, worn by men over the suspensorium.
The women meet suitors with grace and coquetry, in spite of the
lack of clothing.[1464] The Mashukalumbe wear no dress, but the
women wear little iron bells on a strap around the waist.[1465]
The women of the Longos near Foweira wear anklets, waistbands,
and bracelets of beads, but nothing else.[1466] The Herero have a
horror of the nudity of adults.[1467] The Tasmanians wore no
d