UGANDA AND THE WAGANDA. Ill uncivilised race, rather varied, and may be classed under pottery, bark cloths, basketwork, matmaking, metal-work, woodwork, leather-making and dyeing.

The pottery of the Waganda is of two kinds, coarse and fine. The coarse kind comprises the large jars used for carrying water in and for cooking; the former are globular, with a narrow neck, and contain from one to two gallons, while the latter have very wide, shallow necks, or are open hemispherical vessels with no necks. The finer kinds of pottery are the black drinking-bowls and tobacco-pipes. These are made of a fine clay containing a large amount of mica, and which is procured from the beds of streams, and is probably formed from the detritus of igneous rocks. The pipes and bowls made of this clay are very thin, and beautifully finished and smoothed, but as no flux or glaze is employed, they are very brittle.

"When first burnt these articles are of a light grey colour, but after being suspended in the smoke of a wood-fire they become a permanent black. Two shapes of pipes are used, one with a round bowl, and containing a very small amount of tobacco, and the other with a conical bowl which will hold half an ounce or more ; both kinds of pipes and the drinking-bowls are often tastefully ornamented with patterns, which are sometimes coloured with red oxide of iron and white clay.

The bark cloth, or mbugu, is procured from a VOL. I. N