A CHIEF'S GRAVE. 261 similar belief in Unyoro, and on the Blue Nile the legend of “‘hyena-men ” is absolutely believed.

There has been a drought here this year, and therefore there is a good deal of poverty in the villages, but, notwithstanding this, our porters were given some corn to eat. In the middle of the village, which consists of the usual small M4di huts, infested by bugs, the mother of the reigning chief is buried; a flat stone and several long poles, on which hang amulets, mark the grave. The father of the chief is buried at the entrance of the village, his grave being marked by an upright stone about seven feet high, and a post notched at its upper end.

Wooden memorial figures, like those placed in the Bari burial huts, do not exist among the Madi. Large heaps of sycamore fies lie in front of the houses. Scrotal hernias are exceedingly common here among the men.

Descending the hill from Kérefi to regain the main road, we had to cross a little Khor which winds round the hill and then joins Khor Kilive. We passed numerous enclosures surrounded by well-tilled fields, some of them belonging to the village we had just left, and the others, from Khor Lekir onwards, to the community of Abasa. Baker’s district, Fanyiquara, does not le near the river, but is merely a village community to the southwest of Obbo. Fine tall trees were left standing in the fields and clearings, and in their branches we heard the cackling of the plantain-eaters (Schizerhis), The range of hills to the west of the Nile presented a wondrous view, the glowing shades of blue being relieved by a shifting veil of white and grey clouds. After this the ground rose again considerably, and when we had passed Khor Lebbii, Jebel Madi-Lokoya (named Madi-Lucquoia on the maps) came into sight; this latter name was probably heard by Speke from the Danagla who accompanied him, but the mountain is called Remo by the Madi, and appears as Bemo on Grant’s excellent map. The village of Odukwe, where we stayed the night, was situated, like all Madi villages, upon the ridge of a hill, and, in contrast to the general rule, was surrounded by a very strong zertba, and, for a wonder, it was very neatly kept. Outside the village stood a tall, magnificent tree, a Khaya (Madi, Zri; Shuli, Zido), specimens of which are met with rather frequently from this latitude south-