54 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

with well-made anklets, necklaces, waistbands, and bracelets of beads.

The men have most elaborate head-dresses, formed of cowrie- shells and beads, which often attain a height of one or even two feet above the head. Some of the men, as in the preceding picture, have a thin circular iron plate fixed to the hair on each side of the head, a practice which we found among natives much farther north, in the Bahr-el-Ghazel Province.

Among' the Longos the wives are the hair-dressers, and several years are required to complete the headdress, but a wonderful structure is the result of their protracted labours.

The men are tall in proportion to the women, strong and muscular, and a deeper brown colour than the Wanyoro or Shulis.

More meat is eaten by the Longos than by their neighbours, and they also cultivate grain, so that the plantain is not their chief food, as in Unyoro and Uganda. The Longos have great difficulty in obtaining salt ; the general mode is to burn grass, and soak the ashes in water, the saline matter thus produced is taken in a fluid form.

The Longos are rather suspicious of strangers, but I visited two or three of their villages, only a few of the inhabitants remaining to see me. I had much amusement in measuring some of the people ; it was not possible to make them understand my object, and they steadfastly maintained that I was