KIM AND THE BAM. 5 



noteworthy between Lado and Dufile ; the latter place I put 

 down as 3 34/ 33"; it should be 3 34' 35". The difference 

 in the position of Magungo (according to Baker, 2° \6' 00" 

 N. lat., 31° 30' 00" E. long.), is to be explained by the 

 removal of the station farther to the east. In anv case, a basis 

 for a new map has now been obtained, which will probably not 

 require much alteration. 



On the evening of my arrival at Kiri, a station situated upon 

 a hill composed of gneiss and hornblende schist, we experienced 

 a small shock of earthquake, a slight undulating rocking, fol- 

 lowed immediately by a noise resembling the roll of distant 

 thunder. It took place at 6.30 P.M. The weather was per- 

 fectly clear, and the barometer remained absolutely unaffected. 

 In a second all was over, but the same kind of shock occurred 

 again twice during the night. According to letters received 

 from Rejaf, the shock was also felt there, whereas in Muggi 

 nothing was noticed. It is said at Kiri that all earthquakes — 

 and they are very frequent, but never destructive — originate 

 from a prominent ridge of hill, and that there a rotatory move- 

 ment is felt. In very dry seasons, and especially just before 

 the commencement of the rains, the earthquakes are most 

 severe and frequent. I heard the same report at Rejaf, which 

 place takes its name from " earthquake." In Lado earthquakes 

 do not oiten occur, so that Kiri and Rejaf would appear to form 

 the vertices of an ellipse. 



A stay of two days at Kiri gave me an opportunity of 

 making observations and collections, and the mosquitoes only 

 making their presence felt occasionally, all my surroundings 

 favoured a comfortable rest. The people here are Ban", 

 and belong to the same tribe which you know inhabit Lado 

 and Rejaf, with this difference, that instead of the cotton loin- 

 cloths worn by the girls there, that article of their apparel 

 is made of small iron chains woven together by fine iron rings. 

 The married women in both districts wear aprons made of soft 

 leather dyed with the juice of the fig or the gardenia, and the 

 men are absolutely naked. 



A remarkable deformity is frequently noticed in the Bari 

 women, namely, the enormous enlargement of the bursa patelce. 

 of both knees, often to the size of an orange. This is probably 



