16 DUFILE TO MRULI. 



trade in Unyoro depends, and has always depended, on Uganda, 

 and this is the only explanation of the fact that neither Kam- 

 rdsi nor his son Kabrega thought of retaliating for raids made 

 by the Waganda upon their country. 



The people of Magiingo are of a black colour, through which, 

 however, appears very distinctly a red ground-tone. The men 

 and women are on an average a little under middle height, and 

 generally without any muscular development ; they are all 

 clothed in skins, which have been well beaten to render them 

 soft, or in yellow bark-cloth. A round patch of hair crowns 

 the otherwise smoothly shaven head, which is always uncovered. 

 No tattooing is practised, neither are the ears or lips pierced. 

 All, without exception, draw the lower incisors, many also the 

 lower canines, but they could not give me any reason for this 

 custom. The teeth are drawn when puberty is reached. As 

 ornaments, they wear iron necklaces, bracelets, and rings of 

 iron and copper, of various dimensions ; special value is set 

 upon copper. All Magiingo are passionate fishers and hunters ; 

 their arms consist of spears, wickerwork shields, bows, and 

 strong, smooth, unbarbed reed arrows, covered with a poisonous 

 paste, and iron-headed. The fishing appliances are very 

 well described by Baker, as are also the nets for trapping 

 game. Amulets of all kinds are greatly prized ; every man 

 carries pieces of roots, curiously formed bulbs, and segments of 

 goat's horn filled with small roots and made into a necklace. 

 In order to unveil the future or determine questions of difficulty, 

 fowls are killed and their entrails examined by the Maganga 

 (magician). No chief will return by the way he has come. 

 The time of new moon is fraught with magic power, in con- 

 sequence of which the common people celebrate its appearance 

 with music and clamour, the chiefs with hecatombs of fowls. 

 If any one wishes to marry, he purchases his wife from her 

 father. Four oxen for beautiful girls and three oxen for less 

 lovely ones is the conventional price. A sheep is given into 

 the bargain, and is usually eaten at once. If the wife bears 

 a child, two oxen are presented to her father, who may kill 

 them. If she has no children, and is therefore sent back by 

 her husband, she is entitled to two oxen, and two are returned 

 to her husband. The wedding is celebrated with dancing and 



