364 BEDEN TO KAKUAK.

served as the centre for our relations with the southern tribes (Kalika, Lubari, A-Luri, and Loégo). It has, however, lost much of its importance: by the erection of a new station on the upper waters of the Kibbi, in Kalika, and by the latter being connected with Wadelai in the east, with Tambira (also on the Kibbi, but in the Logo district) to the west, and with the station of Kubi in the Monbuttu country, whereby a direct and in part navigable road has been opened up between Monbuttu and the Bahr-el-Jebel. Janda is still, however, one of the most interesting posts in our province. Its high hill (four thousand and eight feet by B.P. observation) commands an extensive view over the whole country as far as the mountains which run along the west bank of the Bahr-el-Jebel, whilst towards the south an undulating stretch of country loses itself in the far-distant sky-lne. At about an hour’s march to the south of Janda, the territory of the Kalika begins ; it is followed to the east and south-east by that of the Lubari, which in turn extends to the Madi of the Bahr-el-Jebel. The A-Liri live due south. On the west the Kalika extend northwards in the direction of Ndirfi. ‘ Luggar,’ on Junker’s map, is, as its name implies, of Kakuak or Bari origin. Its chief with his tribe are said to have been driven by the Makraka from their original home into the Kalika territory. The country to the west of the Kalika is inhabited by the Logo, who extend from the middle course of the Kibbi as far as their kinsmen, the Abukaya. Babe, or rather Bagbe, on Junker’s map, is really the name of a Kalika chief.

The people who came with the chiefs Lémin and Bagbe to visit me reminded me by their appearance of the Madi at Dufilé, having, like them, dark chocolate-brown skins, rounder heads, less prominent cheek-bones, and rather thinner lips than the surrounding tribes. They were all completely loaded with heavy iron ornaments in the shape of bracelets and anklets. I rarely saw copper, but ivory rings on the legs, sometimes six inches broad, appeared to be the pride of their owners. All wore earrings, like the Madi, and some had as head-dresses a flat-shaped cap made out of plaited string’and decorated with ostrich feathers, which had been coloured red by iron ochre. They spoke Kakuak fluently, but used their own language