like the Wajiji and Warundi, consists of a goat-skin, suspended by a knot fastened over the shoulder, and falling over one side of their bodies.

For ornaments they affect the solid brass rings around their ankles or wrists, or the kitindi (brass wire, which is twisted into a spiral coil). The polished tusks of the boar, or a polished piece of thin and curved ivory, are favourite ornaments for the neck throughout the districts of Uvinza, Uhha, Ujiji, and Urundi.

The Wajiji are skilful manufacturers of their own cloth, from the cotton which they cultivate, and it is similar in texture to the Mexican Serape. They are a superstitious race, like the Wakaranga. In Niamtaga, near the gate of the village, I saw their tutelar deity, which was the carved head of a man in wood, painted. The face was colored white, with black staring eyes,

the figure had square upright shoulders, and a kind of head-dress painted a yellow color. Each man or woman, upon entering at the gate, bowed profoundly to the idol, as Roman Catholics do before the image of the Blessed Virgin.

The Wajiji believe that they have power over the crocodiles; that they are so friendly with those amphibious reptiles that they can compel them to do whatever they wish. There is a report current in Ujiji that there is a crocodile, as learned as the seal of Barnum's Museum in New York, which obeys the commands of his friends implicitly, even to taking a man out of his house into the lake, or to travelling into a crowded market, and detecting a thief out of a large assembly of natives. The caverns of Kabogo, on the western side of the lake, are a horror to the Wajiji, who, whenever they pass that terrible place, think to mollify the angry god of the lake by throwing beads and cloth into the waters. They report that this is necessary, and that the god has a preference for white (Merikani) beads; and the Wangwana of Zanzibar and the Arabs must comply with this traditional custom ere the Wajiji will pull oars across. In passing Bemba, also, every boat must chip a certain portion of the pipe-clay ere it can be assured of a fortunate voyage. That it has been a custom complied with for generations is evident by the enormous excavation they have made in the chalk cliff.

No more varied customs have I observed anywhere in regard to the dressing of the hair than I have seen in Urundi and Ujiji. It is either shaved off entirely, or left in diagonal and horizontal lines; or in combs, ridges, tufts, stripes, little curls on the temple and forehead; or in front bands, and sometimes in narrow wavy or straight lines from which we may conclude that the friseur's is

a high art in savage as in civilized lands. And in the ornamentation of their bodies by tattooing they are superior to other tribes. You will find a tattooed wheel encircling the navel, and around each bosom; on the arms the tattooing marks are in wavy lines, or concentric folds, or in lines running diagonally across the chest to the shoulder; in bracelets around the wrist; then from left shoulder to right hip, from right shoulder to left hip, over the stomach, in a most intricate system of lines wavy and horizontal; and over the abdomen in great blotch pieces, with no design whatever. The operation of tattooing, though, must be a painful one, if one may judge from the immense blisters raised after the punctures.

Nothing limits the vanity of the negro for ornament except poverty. Those able to afford the expense wear as many as thirty and forty necklaces of sami-sami, Merikani, sofi, or pipe-stem beads, kadunduguru, and the pink beads. I refer to the Wajiji and Warundi, more especially the latter. Suspended to their necks are the thin curved pieces of ivory, hippopotamus teeth, and boar tusks; and at the back of the neck heavy pieces of carved ivory. Some wear attached to their necks long narrow miniature bells of native iron, twisted iron wire, and charms, or white polished stones or shells, as amulets. Encircling their wrists are armlets of samisami or blue mutunda, which latter is a favourite bead; belts of these beads also surround their waists.

Their clothing consists of a tanned goat, calf, or sheep skin, dyed with the reddish porous clay swept down the ravines by the rivulets. These hide-garments are further ornamented with black lines, spots, and circles, after the manner in vogue amongst our American Indians.

Like the Wagogo, and perhaps to a greater extent, the Warundi are fond of ochre on their bodies. Besides rubbing their bodies with this clay, which considerably lightens the color, they daub their faces, heads, eyelids, and eyebrows a deep red with it.

Their women are in the habit of tying down their long purse-like breasts upon their chests with a cord twined round their bodies. They carry for defence, or from habit, long sticks, which are sometimes decorated with a small figure of a lizard, or a crocodile, on the head.

The tribes bordering the lake carry heavy spears for close action, or for quartering a man, and light assegai, which they are able to throw most accurately fifty and seventy yards. The bows are shorter than those used by the Wanyamwezi and Wakonongo, but the arrows are the same, though more skilfully and tastefully made.

The Wabembe, or the Wavembe-the cannibals who inhabit the rugged range of mountains west of the Tanganika, and opposite North-eastern Urundi-are a people seldom seen by travellers on the lake. They seem to infer, from their own practices, that other people eat their kind, and when boats with Arabs and Wangwana appear in their vicinity they keep close to their own mountain villages. It is said, though I do not vouch for the truth of the report, that when they have known an Arab merchant to have a sickly or a moribund slave, they have offered to purchase him for grain and vegetables; that when they have seen an unusually fat freedman of Zanzibar, they have put their hands to their mouths, and exclaimed, with astonishment, "Chukula, ngema sana, hapa! Chumvi mengi!"-Food, good, indeed, here! Salt plenty!

The Wasansi-or Basansi, as Dr. Livingstone thinks they should be called-are neighbors of the Wabembe, and I fear they must be classed with the man-eaters of Übembe. The Wasansi were those who at Cape Luvumba made such a disturbance with the Doctor and myself because of the murder of the son of Sultan Kisesa by Khamis, the Baluch, and who declared to us they never wished to behold another "Murungwana Zanzibar freeman.

Positively, I never beheld such

DAGGERS AND SPEAR-HEADS.

excitement in my life as these people exhibited when they saw one of my soldiers cutting up a goat for distribution. They seemed to be attacked with a kind of frenzy at the sight of the meat, such as one might expect from any hungry carnivorous animal. They implored with wild eyes for the smallest portion; they fought among themselves when one of my men threw a piece into a crowd; they eagerly gathered the clotted