AN AUDIENCE OF KABREGA. 61 well-formed, smoothly shorn head, these constituting the tribal mark of the Wanyoro; his four lower incisor teeth were wanting, as is the case in all Wanyoro, and the upper incisors projected slightly, and were brilliantly white. (The lower incisors, sometimes also the canines, are always removed from girls and boys as soon as they arrive at puberty. They are forced out with a broad piece of iron used as a lever.) A necklace of hairs from a giraffe’s tail, upon the middle of which was strung a single blue glass bead, encircled his neck. A root amulet and an iron bracelet were the only ornaments on his strong muscular arm; his hands were small and well kept. He is strikingly fair, probably in consequence of his pure Wahutma blood. He made, upon the whole, a very favourable . impression upon me, but there was a decided voluptuous expression on his face. His attendants, about fifty in number, were clothed in skins and bark cloths, and amongst them was his brother, an ugly black fellow.

After presenting him with my credentials, to which I added a few words, a very lively conversation sprang up between us. Kabréga speaks the Sudan Arabic fluently. He requested me, however, although I speak Kinyéro, to talk with him in Arabic, and to permit my words to be translated by his interpreter, ‘“ so that his people could understand them.” I next gave him the presents I had brought with me, and much enjoyed his pleasure in receiving them. He paid especial attention to a few pieces of scented soap. My soldier had a small revolver in his girdle ; Kabréga requested permission to view it, and comprehended at once its mechanism. He took it to pieces, put it together again, and then gave it back to me. He then asked me to inform him how I had enjoyed myself last year in Uganda, and what I had seen there, and he was highly amused with my description of the court ceremonials which obtain in that country. ‘Threatening rain brought our conference to an end before either of us wished its conclusion. He promised, however, that he would soon call me again into his presence, and then took leave of me in a thoroughly dignified manner.

I have often visited Kabréga subsequently, and cannot say that 1 ever heard him speak an improper word or make an indecent gesture, or that he was ever rude, excepting, perhaps,