FALORO. IOI determined by Speke, but somewhat farther to the north-east, on a hill at the foot of the mountains, which present a magnificent view.

Faloro is a large village with plenty of inhabitants, handsomely built houses, and very numerous corn-stores, which indicate abundance of cereals; between the houses lie small open spaces or tobacco plantations. The houses are either mushroom-shaped or hemispherical, and when there is an outer wall, it is made of wattle and daub, while sometimes an open colonnade formed by the projecting roof surrounds the house. The doors are always so low that the people have to crawl through them; mats of bast supported by a strong stake form the door, which is closed when the occupier goes out. The floor is made smooth, a hollow near the wall forming the fireplace. A sort of slanting couch made of round pieces of wood, and raised on four legs, occupies one part of every house. The clay and gourd vessels are of the usual shapes. ‘The cornstores—baskets made of split bamboos neatly woven together— stand on three or four legs, are covered with conical roofs, and are often strengthened with clay, and whitewashed.

Sesame, white durrah, eleusine, hibiscus, sweet potatoes, yams, mungo beans, a Canavalia with round red beans, as well as some other Papilionaceee, and tobacco are cultivated on a large scale. Bananas, which have been introduced here from Wadelai, thrive well, but are not much eaten. Bushes of a white-blossomed Tephrosia, about six feet high, show that fish are caught in the neighbouring brooks.* Votive trees may be geen here and there between the houses; upon them are suspended skulls, antlers, horns, and teeth, including those of leopards, small cats, Bos bubalus, Antilope leucotis, A. ellipsiprymna, A. oreas, boars, &c. Lions are rather scarce, leopards very common. It is singular that no monkeys are seen all the way from the Sobat to Faloro, unless the occasional appearance of Cynocephaloids in the large forests beyond Shambé and Bor be taken into account. Along the river they are entirely absent, as is also their companion, the well-known green parrot (Palewornis torquatus), of which I * The beans of some varieties of this species are used to stupefy the fish.