THE WANYORO. | 73 Unyéro, Uganda, Usoga, and Karagwa the names of places are used equally for the small districts surrounding them, so that two travellers may have apparently visited the same place, and yet their descriptions of that place may not exactly tally. In this way may be explained the divergences which have been found between Speke’s most excellent astronomically fixed positions and those of later observers.

5. A DESCRIPTION OF THE WANYORO.

PERSONAL HABITS—DRESS—ARTICLES OF FOOD AND LUXURIES—HUNTING —HUTS—MANUFACTURES—THE WIFE AND THE FAMILY—BIRTH—A PUBLIC MEETING—MARRIAGE—PROSTITUTION—-PROPERTY AND THEFT —THE GOVERNMENT—THE KING'S PRIVILEGES—HISTORICAL AND COSMOGRAPHICAL FABLES—THE BELIEF IN MAGIC—-ORACLES—THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE, THE Wanyoro, though they do not despise the flesh of a cow which has died a natural death, are very clean and particular in their eating and in their persons. ‘They will never eat on the bare ground; even on a journey they carry with them a httle mat for a tablecloth; but, strange to say, they do not wash their cookine-pots after using them. Washing is much in vogue, but notwithstanding the cleanly habits of the people, there unfortunately exists a quantity of vermin, which especially infest the bark cloth. The custom therefore prevails of fumigating the cloth every two or three days with smoke from pieces of dried papyrus-stalks stripped of their bark; the thick and peculiarly pungent smoke is said to drive away parasites, and at the same time imparts to the material a perfume perceptible at some distance. As for scents, however, for rubbing on the body, a kind of sweet-smelling very compact grey clay is used, and a species of touchwood which smells like musk. The clay is brought from the south, and is sold at a high price. The body is always clean shaved, the head only as a sign of mourning.

The Wanyoro cut their finger-nails in the form of a triangle,