KIRI AND THE BARI. 5

noteworthy between Lado and Dufilé; the latter place I put down as 3° 34’ 33”; it should be 3° 34’ 35”. The difference in the position of Magungo (according to Baker, 2° 16’ 00” N. lat., 31° 30’ 00” EH. long.), is to be explained by the removal of the station farther to the east. In any case, a basis for a new map has now been obtained, which will probably not require much alteration.

On the evening of my arrival at Kiri, a station situated upon a hill composed of gneiss and hornblende schist, we experience

a small shock of earthquake, a slight undulating rocking, fol- lowed immediately by a noise resembling the roll of distant thunder. It took place at 6.30 pM. The weather was per- fectly clear, and the barometer remained absolutely unaffected.

In a second all was over, but the same kind of shock occurred

again twice during the night. According to letters received from Rejaf, the shock was also felt there, whereas in Mugei

nothing was noticed. It is said at Kiri that all earthquakes— and they are very frequent, but never destructive—originate from a prominent ridge of hill, and that there a rotatory move- ment is felt. In very dry seasons, and especially just before the commencement of the rains, the earthquakes are most severe and frequent. I heard the same report at Rejaf, which place takes its name from “earthquake.” In Lado earthquakes do not orten occur, so that Kiri and Rejaf would appear to form the vertices of an ellipse.

A stay of two days at Kiri gave me an opportunity of making observations and collections, and the mosquitoes only making their presence felt occasionally, all my surroundings favoured a comfortable rest. The people here are Bari, and belong to the same tribe which you know inhabit Ladé and Rejaf, with this difference, that instead of the cotton loin- cloths worn by the girls there, that article of their apparel is made of small iron chains woven together by fine iron rings. The married women in both districts wear aprons made of soft leather dyed with the juice of the fig or the gardenia, and the men are absolutely naked.

A remarkable deformity is frequently noticed in the Bari women, namely, the enormous enlargement of the bursa patele

- of both knees, often to the size of an orange. This is probably