ROHL. 141 villages. The streets are very narrow and circuitous. The town was formerly well fortified, but now the earthworks are all in ruins. There are large gardens round the Seriba, and numerous vegetables can be procured, as well as oranges, dates, custard apples {Anoiia Senegalensis), and telaboon {Eloisena koracena). One sees here natives from many different tribes. I noticed that the Monbuttu people cut away part of their ears, leaving only the outer rim, and most of the men at lyack and Eohl have short beards. With the exception of the wives of the Arabs, no woman is permitted to wear a particle of clothing. We saw a man belonging to a dwarf race, but he could not, I think, be called a Tikki-Tikki, for he did not answer to Schweinfurth's description of that race. He was about thirty years old, and had glossy curly black hair, brown eyes, thin lips, and a good facial angle. His height was 1-364 m.

; circumference of head above ears, 549 mm. ; from ear to ear, measured over the head, 278 mm. From the glabella to the occipital protuberance, 324 mm. ; length of hand, 155 mm. ; of foot, 204 mm. ; of leg, 683 mm. ; of upper arm, 324 mm.

; of fore-arm, 382 mm. Circumference of chest, 768 mm. His body was well proportioned, and his muscles very well developed ; the colour of his skin was chocolate-brown, both hands and feet being a shade lighter. He was a sharp, intelligent, good-