130 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

or sheep's teeth, and very heavy iron rings on both arms and legs are common, many of the natives being so heavily weighted that they have great difficulty in walking. They wear a roll of leaves to prevent the rings chafing the ankles. Both men and women have long strings of discs cut out of snail-shells round the waist ; as by the Baris, these strings of shells are used as money. We saw in the village a large number of white-and-tan dogs, of a better breed than is usually met with. A tame African skunk was offered to us as a present, but we did not accept hini ; he was black and white : the native name for skunk is uluria. Tak Farre is very proud of a tame monkey he has had in his possession for a long time ; this monkey licks the feet of his master and his friends as his salaam. Bound the village there are immense fields of dhurra and sem-sem ; in fact, I never saw in Africa so much cultivation except in the neighbourhood of Fatiko.

Neatly made racks, sloping in order to catch as much sunshine as possible, are used for drying the semsem ; the racks are fifteen feet high and fifty yards and more long, and, wonderful to relate, they were in parallel straight lines, even the cross-bars used to support them being placed at regular distances.

At Madi there are a great many guinea-fowl, which were quite a welcome addition to our larder, as we were getting tired of the small lean fowls which, with kisreh, formed our usual diet. It may