WADELAYS DISTRICT, 143 of the sun; it,gave 109.5. Gimoro, “the right” or foster brother of chief Wadelai, arrived to visit me, accompanied by 300 Negroes, and he also brought me a tusk. He is a strong, intelligent-looking man. Green tendrils were twined round his smoothly shorn head; his arms were covered with beautiful iron ornaments, and his dress consisted of goat-skins hung from the shoulder. After he had received presents of beads, cloth, and copper, he told me that Wadelai himself was unable to come because he was too stout to walk. The kuftan I had sent him on the previous evening was too tight, for, said he, ‘when he sits a child could stand upon his paunch.” A long palaver with him led to a satisfactory conclusion, and I received permission to form a station here, after promising to keep -my soldiers well in hand. Whilst the people acceded to my request to bring wood for the steamer, I had an opportunity of inspecting them closely. The whole district of Wadelai is called Koche, ‘This is pronounced by the Shuli and Wanydéro Koshe, which has led to the word Koshi figuring on Baker’s map.

This district forms one of the many subdivisions of. the large country of Lur or Alur, which, from the southern boundary of the Madi district, stretches to an unknown distance towards the south, whilst the Bahr-el-Jebel and the Albert Lake form its eastern boundary, and Lubari, as well as a number of entirely unknown countries, such as Léndu, border it on the west. The language of the Wadelai, or rather the Koche tribe, is the Aluri, probably a dialect of the Shuli. I shall have an opportunity of discussing the country and language later on. The people are a handsome race, mostly of middle height, in colour black, with a reddish-brown tinge, and they have beautiful teeth and small feet. They wear the hides and skins of oxen and goats, and sometimes those of dwarf antelopes; these are fastened over the right shoulder. Bark cloths brought from Unyoro are only rarely seen. Though little attention is paid to dress (the skins worn were mostly torn), great care is expended on ornaments and painting. All kinds of frisures obtain ; the wigs and cowrie head-dresses of the eastern Shuli district, the towering head-dresses of the western Lingo, as -well as spiral tresses and corkscrew curls. Many I saw had dyed