HOW SHE MANAGED IT.
When M : ss Kingsley, the naturalist, visited the rivers of West Africa, she experienced some difficulty in securing a proper degree of privacy for executing the functions of the toilette. It is difficult to comb your back hair or trim your corns with a group of interested African natives looking on. In her recently published book she tells how she succeeded in taking a bath unmolested by prying eyes. She got up in bhe middle of the night from the Fan village, and taking a canoe, paddled across the lake, and after blundering into the middle of an evening party of five hippopotami, paddled to a qniet spot on the banks in the depths of the forest and took a midnight bath. • Drying one’s self on one’s cnmmerbnnd is not pnre joy,’ she quaintly observes, • bnt lb can be done when you put yonr mind to it.’ And she got back from her midnight excursion without a Fan being aware of her absence.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 554
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167HOW SHE MANAGED IT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 554
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