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Updated: May 12, 2025
He had on a long, dark-blue joho, or robe, embellished down its open front with a tracery of gold. Underneath he wore the kanzu, the under robe of fine white cotton, embroidered round the neck with a bit of red needlework, and reaching to his boots of soft, black leather. Bound his waist was a blue-and-gold sash, from which protruded the silver hilt of his J-shaped Zanzibar dagger.
He cast round her his blood-stained robe. Through a rent in his white kanzu, which was glued to his body, his shoulder appeared, covered with a black encrustation. "Wherever we turn," he answered, "there is the face of God." "So you still believe? You could even pray, perhaps?"
The Swahili men wear a long white cotton garment, like a night-shirt, called a kanzu; the women who are too liberally endowed to be entirely graceful go about with bare arms and shoulders, and wear a long brightly-coloured cloth which they wind tightly round their bosoms and then allow to fall to the feet.
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