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northern of the villages owned by these little people, 
thirty-five miles above Lake Stephanie. 
About thirty of the Dume accompanied us on this 
march, partly out of curiosity, and partly, I believe, to see 
if they could not get me to give them some more tin. 
One of them sold me a handsome ivory bracelet, which he 
said belonged to his wife, for about a farthing’s worth of 
tin sheeting. I climbed up the mountains near the camp 
to have a look at the village, and got a glimpse of two 
women about a hundred yards away. They were black, 
and wore only a narrow strip of leather around the 
waist. I could see also that they were a little smaller 
than their husbands, and that their abdomens were very 
prominent; but as they fled as soon as they caught 
sight of us, I can tell nothing more about them. 
The huts were small, conical-shaped affairs, made of 
bent sticks and covered with grass. There was nothing 
in them except a few very crude wooden vessels. 
On June 28 we circled around the northern end of the 
Amar range, and camped by an artificial pond that lay 
in a big valley to the west. This pond had been dug 
by the Kuli, a small tribe who inhabit the country adjacent 
to the Dume on the northwest. To the northeast of 
the Kuli live two tribes called the Mali and the Borali; to 
the west, the Dime and the Aro; while the valley to the 
south 1s inhabited by the Bunno. 
All these tribes are agriculturalists, and also own sheep, 
goats, and a very few cattle and donkeys, but no camels. 
Atter leaving El Dere we saw no camels, except a half- 
dozen owned by the Tertala Boran, until we got to 
the lower end of Lake Rudolf. All the Boran went 
about quite naked, used poisoned arrows, and were con- 
tinually at war with one another. The Mali and Borali 
had the reputation of being the most ferocious, and kept 
