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The hotel was thronged with passengers to India, with rosy, blooming English ladies and crowds of my own countrymen. I felt inclined to talk to everybody. Never was I so in love with my own countrymen and women; but they (I mean the ladies) all had large balls of hair at the backs of their heads! What an extraordinary change! I called Richarn, my pet savage from the heart of Africa, to admire them. “Now, Richarn, look at them!” I said. “What do you think of the English ladies? eh, Richarn? Are they not lovely?”<\/p>\n

“Wah Illahi!” exclaimed the astonished Richarn, “they are beautiful! What hair! They are not like the negro savages, who work other people’s hair into their own heads; theirs is all real–all their own–how beautiful!”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Richarn,” I replied, “ALL THEIR OWN!” This was my first introduction to the “chignon.””,”Samuel White Baker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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