ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION FROM KILIMA-NJARO. 



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from tlie Sualioli. There are words for numbers xip to ten, and then 

 counting- is continued by tens. 



The agricultural imideiuents are the usual V-shaped wooden hoe, uni- 

 versal throughout dentral Africa— each arm of the V is about 18 inches 

 long ; a hoe formed by inserting a triangular tlat piece of iron into a heavy 

 wooden handle; axes made by inserting a small triangular piece of iron 

 into a heavy wooden handle ; adzes, scoojis, or gouges for hollowing out 

 wooden vessels; reaping-hooks with short thick blades. Besides, they 

 make razors, chisels, awls, and large needles out of wire. Iron wire 

 brought from the coast is their sole source of supply. The native black- 

 smiths are very clever at welding and are really good workmen consid- 

 ering their poor tools. They also make very neat chains of iron and 

 brass. Domestic utensils are largely made from gourds. Plates and 

 dishes are hollowed out from solid l)lo(dvs (►f wood, as are also the pombe 



Fiji'. S. 



Hut in MAfHAME. 



Mt. Kiliiiia-Njaro, East Africa. 



(From photograpli in 11. .S. N. M. ) 



(beer) tubs, and the bee-hives, like long, narrow barrels, that every 

 where ornament the trees, hanging from the branches. 



The domestic aniiuals are the cattle, sheep, and goats. The cattle 

 are of the usual humped variety, of small size, A well-fattened heifer 

 affords as good beef as one can desire. The Rombo especially have 

 the knack of fattening cattle, and Mandarti always sends to them for 

 this i^urpose such cattle as he needs for his own consumption or to pre- 

 sent to strangers. The sheep are generally small, only weighing about 

 25 pounds dressed; they have fat tails and blackheads, and the mutton 

 is equal to the best Welsh. The goats are also very good. Those of the 

 plains on the contrary — in Taveita, for example — are very poor eating; 

 the mutton being tough and dry. Fowls are generally kept, but the 



