370 KAKUAK AND FAJELU COUNTRIES.

of outsiders is very marked amongst the Kakuak and Fajelu, who often wear a leafy dress, in imitation of the Makraka tribes, instead of the leather apron usually worn by the Bari. They are, however, conservative enough to retain their broad tails of cotton threads. LHarrings, too, are worn by both sexes in the west, whereas they are very rarely seen in the neighbourhood of the Nile, and the Kakuak women alone wear a quartz pin in the lower lip. It may also be worth mentioning that, whereas the real Bari, the Shir, and the Mandari live in permanent villages, which, once established, are never abandoned, the divisions occupying the south and west have roving habits, and like to change their villages from year to year. The Marshia, who live in and around Rimo, and who are few in number, occupy a rather isolated position in the general group.

Externally they resemble the Bari type, and are of very dark complexion, and they appear to be the remainder of a large tribe which in the course of time has been scattered. They live rather exclusively, and marry among themselves, or with girls they have bought from other tribes. They are very skilful and industrious smiths.

Passing by the chief zer{ba of Rimo, which was encircled by bananas, and where ten to fifteen Danagla lived, we descended to Khor Geli, which flows into the Yei, and crossed it by means of a swinging tree-trunk; its depth varies from six to eight feet, and it was thirty-two feet broad. An hour was occupied in getting the people and goods across the bridge, and we then ascended through a belt of sedges to the village of Maga, a Moru settlement in the Fajelu country.

Close by the village there is a very swampy depression called Dange, containing about three feet of water, and ending in a perfect wilderness of high grass, shrubs, and brushwood. Chief Woda’s row of huts, Wandi, forms the boundary here between the Fajelu district and that of the true Makraka, whose first village, Poro, had avery pleasing appearance. Conspicuous among the cultivated plants were splendid Colocasias, manioc, and Helmia, and an abundance of tobacco. ‘Threatening rain compelled us to camp at Chief Bandua’s village, Abutu, which consisted of twelve huts, as many corn stores, and therefore as many wives. In the middle of the zeriba was a cleanly kept