UNYORO COOKERY. 77 gourd-bottles through small tubes very elegantly worked. The lower extremity of the tube (dusaka) forms also a kind of filter for the turbid fluid. Hach family manufactures drinks for its own consumption. Spirits, in spite of Baker’s instructions, are not made, but are readily taken when they are to be had. In Uganda the Arabs distil spirits from bananas. Coffee-drinking is unknown, though the tree grows in the south, and berries are exported in large. quantities from Uganda to the north. The sugar-cane, which is cultivated everywhere, is eaten, but not made into sugar. It has been remarked before that many kinds of food are avoided as causing disease. Thus, the flesh of the hippopotamus and of the larger fishes is said to produce skin diseases, Noreptiles are eaten, not even the python, nor is the raven (Corvus scapulatus Daud.), whereas all the larger rodents are consumed. For cannibals, who bear the general name of “ Valiabantu” (man-eaters), there exist, singularly enough, different names in Unyéro and in Uganda—mseri in the former country, and mluggw in the latter. Does this fact indicate that the custom is really practised ?

It is remarkable how proud the wives of the chiefs in this country are. ‘To begin with, they do no cooking; field work and water-carrying are left to the servants, and the mistresses sit on their mats and do nothing but smoke and talk. For clothing, they affect fine leather imported from Uganda, covered with material made from bark, and adorn themselves with rings of brass and copper, strings of pearls round the neck and waist, sometimes also with anklets. The rings often cover two-thirds of the forearm. I have seen cuts or scars as ornaments, but only on women from the south-western districts.

The food of the people varies extremely according to their rank, Whereas milk is much liked by all classes, and the fat wives of Kabréga and the greater chiefs are only permitted to live on milk, except twice a week salt porridge mixed with broth, and sometimes a handful of raw salt, the lower classes, _ unless-they are prevented by personal dislike or fear, eat whatever their limited agriculture and the animal world afford them. Kabréga himself eats bananas and beef only, and drinks milk and mwéige. His cook, as also all his body-servants, are