TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 785 



in England extending along its eastern shore, including York, Lincoln, and 

 London.* 



1 4. On the People of Western Ireland and their Mode of Life. 

 By Professor A. C. Haddon. 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 14. 

 The following Papers were read : — 

 1. On three Neolithic Settlements in North Kent. By Mrs. Stopes. 



Mrs. Stopes treated the topographical relations of the localities in which she 

 has found the traces of Neolithic settlements in the neighbourhood of Swans- 

 combe. They all face east. Is there any possible meaning in this ? The shapes 

 of the tools and Bakes are very similar, though there must have been long intervals 

 at least between two of them, as one tribe used the pebbles of the AVoolwich and 

 Reading beds, the other fresh chalk flints of a fine quality. Mrs. Stopes also 

 noted the information to be gained regarding the chief settlement from the places 

 in which the dlH'erent types of worked flints are found. The flakes and chips 

 show where the flint-workers worked; the warlike weapons mark the line of 

 defence, &c. 



2. On the Native Tribes between the Zambezi and Uganda. 

 By Lionel Decle. 



After explaining the origin of the name of Mashona — an English corruption of 

 the nickname of Amashuina (baboons) given by the Matahele to the Makalanga — 

 JNJr. Decle gave a sketch of the various tribes found between the Zambezi and 

 Uganda, and criticised the classification of the native races according to their 

 language. He explained how, for instance, some tribes classified as Bantu difiered 

 physically from others included under the same name. An account was given of 

 the customs prevailing amongst the people between the Zambezi and Uganda. 

 Mr. Decle showed a living specimen from the country he had visited — a young 

 boy, whom he had brought back with him — and gave his history. The boy, who 

 came from the west shore of Tanganyika, had been sold by his own brother to a 

 coast man for two yards of calico. Ou the way to the coast he got sore-footed, 

 and was sold to a Wahha chief for three goats. When Mr, Decle was in the 

 Wahha country he was attacked every night, and at last, in order to put a stop to 

 it, he one day caught a chief and threatened to hang him if his goods were not 

 returned. After much talking Mr. Decle agreed to talte as a ransom the child and 

 ten goats. The boy, although he refused to return to the Wahha or to his own 

 people, was for a long time afraid that Mr. Decle would eat him up. 



3. On the Lex Barbarorum of the Daghestan. 

 By Professor Maxime Kovalevsky. 



The author insisted on the necessity of more trustworthy information as to old 

 customs and usages being obtained by travellers, and expressed a hope that English 

 ethnographers in India would search for old collections of sentences pronounced by 

 judges As an instance, he mentioned the existence of such a treatise in the 

 Daghestan. It is preserved in Derbent, on the shores of the Caspian, and is known 



' This paper will appear inextenso in fh^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 

 of Scotland, 18d3-di. 



1894. 3 E 



