NILOTIC XEGROES 



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stockade, and then })ass tlieir sjiears rej)eatedly backwards and fcjnvards 

 througli the water, and in this way they shry larg-c nnnd)ers of a 

 raud-loving 'tirrcnnTs. The other Nile peoples hunt witli doirs, and attack 

 the game with spears. The Acholi surround large areas with a succession 

 of nets, each about twenty yards long. When rather more than a semi- 

 circle has thus been netted in. a number of s[)earmen squat down alon^" 

 the outer side of the nets while others rush into the enclosure, set fire 

 to the herbage, and drive the game before them against the nets, where 

 numbers of beasts are speared by the men awaiting their arrival on the 

 other side of the net. 



Xot many of these Nile tribes keep fowls. All of them keep goafs, 

 sheep, and caJAh;, the cattle being invariably of the humped zebu tvpe. 

 Not a few of these cattle from the Lango and Acholi countries have the 

 horns curiously crossed at their points. All these Nile tribes mix cow's 

 urine with the milk when drinking the latter. They also make butter 

 from milk, but use it chiefly as an ointment. 



In tea rf are the Acholi use spears with a short, narrow blade, and 

 long, narrow shields made of giraffe, ox. or rhinoceros hide.-' The four 

 projecting corners of the sliield are finished with small and elegant 

 knobs. The strong stick which is fa-tened up and down along the inner 

 middle of the leather shields 

 projects at both ends. At the 

 top of the shield the projecting 

 portion is decorated with a large 

 pompon of black ostrich feathers. 

 The outer surface of the shield 

 is ornamented at regular in- 

 tervals with handsome little brass 

 knobs. Among the Lango. in 

 place of these brass knobs, there 

 are generally thin bands of iron. 

 The Aluru. who dwell to the 

 north-west of Lake Albert. hav(^ 

 no spears, but fight with bows 

 and arrows. The Eari and 

 Latuka use spears only. The 

 Lango and Umiro confine them- 

 selves chiefly to assegais, or 

 throwing-spears. None of these 

 people have swords like the 



* 111 shape like those of tlio 

 Turkaiia. See Yis. 47o. 424. sid.vnkse skllinu kkiku TEKjuTiis (whitk ant>) 



