ANFINA’S CAPITAL. 283 of prostrate trunks, deep holes and trenches, creeping plants, thorns, and tendrils, with a whole skin and only his clothes in rags. But yet these woods are beautiful. After passing the little village Bedmot, and the Maya ravine, we left the huts of Kijaja to our left, and, marching along a much better road, we reached the boundary between Ridnga’s and Anfina’s territories, at the Khor Nyaj, which was quite dry. We rested at Royoro’s village, Merachak, and through the liberality of that chief, who is subject to Anfina, my men enjoyed some banana beer, so that the march was continued in better spirits. The hills above Khor Tari were clothed with a grand wood, whose trees towered to the sky and were hung with festoons of climbing plants. Many trees upon our way had been -stripped of their bark to make beehives, though the management of bees, if such a term may be applied to the mere hanging up of hives and the extraction of the honey, is much more actively carried on in the Lango district than here.

On our arrival at Anfina’s (Panyatoli), his men, in festive attire, and drawn up in rank under waving Egyptian banners, received us with a volley of guns. Anfina himself, their commander, was dressed in English flannel, and did me the honour of conducting me into his enclosure, where a fine large hut, built in the Waganda style, was assigned to me, while my men camped outside the fence. Presents were immediately brought me of quantities of sweet potatoes, fowls, eggs, eleusine, flour ripe and unripe bananas, six elephant’s tusks, and a goat. A cow and the indispensable banana beer were added for my men. I was not a little puzzled as to how I should requite this bounty, for among the great chiefs of the south one cannot get off with glass beads and other toys of the kind; at any rate my present must have pleased Anfina, for a large gourd vessel full of banana wine (sandi) was then sent me. The reception prepared for me, the crowds of people, the well-armed attendants of the chief, becomingly dressed in cloths, the people decently wrapped in skins and bark cloths, all vividly reminded me of Uganda and the reception I met with on two occasions from King Mtésa. I must say again, that, setting aside peculiarities common to all Negroes, Anfina and Mtésa’s Katikiro