CUSTOMS OF THE LUR, 155 at the outer corners of the eyes, where they converge to a centre.

Three cows and an ox, and also (if the suit be accepted and the cows are not returned) two goats or sheep to be killed at the marriage feast, are considered an equivalent for a girl arrived at maturity. The expense of the marriage feast is borne by the bride’s father. If the wife is barren, she may be put away, in which case the father has to pay back the ox and ‘one of the cows, and his divorced daughter can be sold in marriage again for half the above price. Delivery, the division of the navel cord, the washing of the child and anointing it with butter and red clay (which is very dear here), and the naming of the child are performed exactly as in Unyoro.

The clothing is rather primitive. Chiefs wrap themselves in tanned cow-hides and antelope skins, the hair having been scraped off, and the lower edge of the skin is often trimmed with stripes of the white mane of the Colobus guereza. When able to procure it, they dress in the coarser bark cloths of Unyoéro. Other men are generally covered with a goat’s hide knotted over the shoulder, but many have only a leather covering in front. The women wear a short tail behind of red twisted cotton threads fastened to the girdle, and a covering of three fingers’ breadth in front. Gurls are, as a rule, perfectly nude. ‘The girdles are in all cases ornamented with cowries or beads and with iron rings. Necklets made of banana (Musa ensete) seeds, necklaces, arm-rings and anklets of iron, brass, and copper (rare), ivory arm-rings, spirally rolled brass wire covering the fore-arm like a coat-of-mail, and called mula, roots on strings, and finger-rings of brass wire were all the ornaments I noticed. It is strange that here, as well as in Uganda and Unyéro, ear-rings are very rarely worn; in fact, piercing the ears is a thing almost unknown.

The dead are bewailed, and are buried full length in a grave in the immediate neighbourhood of the huts. Stones are laid upon the grave, and if the deceased was a chief, a small hut is built over his place of burial, gifts of corn are laid within, and a goat is slaughtered.

Bows and smooth iron arrows are carried as weapons; they are often covered with a thick layer of poison, and carried in