UNYORO COOKERY. 75 is produced by holding a stick vertically in a shallow hollow made in another stick lying horizontally, and twirling it quickly round; the spark is caught in hay or old bark cloth. This process, however, demands a good deal of skill. The honey of wild bees is much liked; it is eaten alone or with porridge.

Durrah and eleusine are mashed into a thick porridge, and cooked with sesame, butter, honey, or meat broth. Roots, too, are used, such as wild yams and a very bitter red root (coceuria ?). Manioc is eaten only in the south. Sweet potatoes (Batatas edulis) are boiled in water. Pepper (Capsicum conicum) is avoided, as productive of sterility; while a solanum with small orange-coloured, cherry-shaped fruit, of disagreeable taste, is much liked, and is even eaten raw. Gourds are: planted in great numbers, and are made use of as food and as vessels, Leguminous plants are much prized, such as Phaseolus lunatus, Ph. mungo, Vigna sinensis, and two or three other kinds. Beef is eaten only by well-to-do people, goat’s flesh universally, The habit of eating earth is known in Unyéoro, and is practised as a remedy for a disease to which both sexes are liable. The kind of earth most liked is that with which the termites are in the habit of arching over their passages on the trunks of trees, but ordinary earth is not despised. This practice, if long continued, is said to cause discoloration of the skin and hair, as well as general emaciation, and finally death. Nightmare is ascribed to overheating the body by food or clothing.

Throughout Unydéro and Uganda the women are the cooks ; but the chiefs employ men cooks (mfumbiro), with whom they have made blood-brotherhood, and have separate kitchens for the men and women. ‘The great chiefs always eat alone, and no one may touch or look at the dishes prepared for them. Inferior chiefs often invite their favourites to their table, and whenever a crumb happens to fall to the ground from the chief's hand, these men snatch it up at once and swallow it, in homage to their lord! Women eat in a separate place, and after the men have finished ; it is considered a particular sign of favour when a woman is invited by her husband to eat with hin, but the Wawitu women who spring from ruling families are