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conversation The person came and stood over me, and somehow--by

instinct, I suppose--I became aware that my visitor was a woh to enable ht that, passing through the

sloom of the hut, stood the most beautiful

creature that I had ever seen--that is, if it be admitted that a person

who is black, or rather copper-coloured, can be beautiful

She was a little above the ure that,

so far as I ae of such matters, was absolutely perfect--that of

a Greek statue indeed On this point I had an opportunity of for an

opinion, since, except for her little bead apron and a single string

of large blue beads about her throat, her costume ell, that of

a Greek statue Her features showed no trace of the negro type; on the

contrary, they were singularly well cut, the nose being straight and

fine and the pouting mouth that just showed the ivory teeth between,

very se, dark and liquid, like those of a

buck, set beneath a s, but not

woolly, hair gre This hair, by the as not dressed up in any

of the eccentric native fashions, but si knot over the nape of the neck, the little ears peeping

out through its tresses The hands, like the feet, were very small and

delicate, and the curves of the bust soft and full without being coarse,

or even showing the promise of coarseness