" (Sir H.H. Johnston,
_Uganda Protectorate_, vol. ii, pp. 669-672.)
Among the Nilotic Ja-luo, Johnston states that "unmarried men go
naked. Married men who have children wear a small piece of goat
skin, which, though quite inadequate for purposes of decency, is,
nevertheless, a very important thing in etiquette, for a married
man with a child must on no account call on his mother-in-law
without wearing this piece of goat's skin. To call on her in a
state of absolute nudity would be regarded as a serious insult,
only to be atoned for by the payment of goats. Even if under the
new dispensation he wears European trousers, he must have a piece
of goat's skin underneath. Married women wear a tail of strings
behind." It is very bad manners for a woman to serve food to her
husband without putting on this tail. (Sir H.H. Johnston, _Uganda
Protectorate_, vol. ii, p. 781.)
Mrs. French-Sheldon remarks that the Masai and other East African
tribes, with regard to menstruation, "observe the greatest
delicacy, and are more than modest." (_Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, 1894, p. 383.)
At the same time the Masai, among whom the penis is of enormous
size, consider it disreputable to conceal that member, and in the
highest degree reputable to display it, even ostentatiously. (Sir
H.H. Johnston, _Kilima-njaro Expedition_, p.
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