AMONG THE PAGANS OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN 5 speak indistinctly, and adds much to the missionaries’ difficulties when learning the language.

The ordinary dress of the Dinkas is scanty,. consisting of clay and ashes smeared over their bodies, and a JIENG WOMEN TdAATCHING A NATIVE HUT bead necklace or belt; but for festive occasions, such as dances, the young men deck themselves in leopard skins and feathers, and adorn their faces with streaks of white ashes. The married women usually wear dressed sheepskins round their waists, and the height of their ambition is to possess a piece of dyed cotton material to fold round their shoulders. They wear many heavy iron anklets and brass bracelets, and red earth is much fancied for putting, on their bodies, and, mixed with grease, for hairdressing purposes.

The Dinka huts are shaped like round haystacks, with walls of mud mixed with chopped grass, and high sloping