SHULI MANNERS. 271 behind from the girdle, and a covering of cotton threads, about three fingers broad, in front. Girls wear only five or six threads, hanging down in front from the girdle. Iron and brass rings are worn wherever it is possible to put them, and their jingling noise is heard at a distance, announcing the approach of one of the fair sex. The Shuli women are not ugly when young, and really pretty faces are often seen among them, but their reputation is none of the best, and it is said that their husbands are not very sensitive about the vagaries of their better-halves. JI have formerly described the sleepinghuts where boys and girls learn Shuli morality.

In all the villages there are places of assembly for men and women, 7.¢., sloping benches made of logs, on which they. stretch themselves to smoke and talk; Burton has already described them. ‘The favourite resorts of young men are high scaffoldings like watchtowers, commanding an extensive outlook. Miniature huts, magic plants for use in hunting and war, trees decked with skulls and bones, are met with everywhere.

The station of Fadibék is surrounded by numerous Shili hamlets, all neatly enclosed in bamboo fences; their well-tilled fields extend far around, and through them winds a little khor with such luxuriant vegetation, that for the moment you forget that this is the sparsely wooded Shuli country. Clumps of slender date-palms, half buried in thick underwood, look very eraceful. The chief of all the Shul, Rochama, an old gentleman who is very proud of his pure Wawitu descent, and with whom I was previously acquainted, sent his son to invite me to visit him, as illness prevented him coming to see me; s0 we turned off in the direction of his residence.

Broad ridges of hills strewn with rocks and boulders, and clothed with open forest, stretched out before us, and numerous hamlets lay scattered over the well-tilled country. A good view was obtained from a high bare dome, Abayo, against which the village Lungudi nestles, and as we had to change porters here, I had time to look round. ‘The bare granite was so steep that I could hardly get a foothold. There must be a splendid view from the top (260 feet above the village) in clear weather, but on this occasion smoke and fog interfered