THE WANYOBO. y 3 



Unyoro, Uganda, Usoga, and Karagwa the names of places are 

 used equally for the small districts surrounding them, so that 

 two travellers may have apparently visited the same place, and 

 yet their descriptions of that place may not exactly tally. In 

 this way may be explained the divergences which have been 

 found between Speke's most excellent astronomically fixed 

 positions and those of later observers. 



5. A Description of the Waxyoeo. 



PERSONAL HABITS — DRESS — ARTICLES OF FOOD AND LUXURIES — HUNTING 

 — HUTS — MANUFACTURES — THE WIFE AND THE FAMILY — BIRTH — A 



PUBLIC MEETING MARRIAGE — PROSTITUTION — PROPERTY AND THEFT 



— THE GOVERNMENT — THE KING'S PRIVILEGES — HISTORICAL AND 

 COSMOGRAPHICAL FABLES — THE BELIEF IN MAGIC — ORACLES — THEIR 

 GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE. 



The Wanyoro, though they do not despise the flesh of a cow 

 which has died a natural death, are very clean and particular 

 in their eating and in their persons. They will never eat on 

 the bare ground ; even on a journey they carry with them a 

 little mat for a tablecloth ; but, strange to say, they do not 

 wash their cooking-pots after using them. Washing is much 

 in vogue, but notwithstanding the cleanly habits of the 

 people, there unfortunately exists a quantity of vermin, which 

 especially infest the bark cloth. The custom therefore prevails 

 of fumigating the cloth every two or three days with smoke 

 from pieces of dried papyrus-stalks stripped of their bark ; 

 the thick and peculiarly pungent smoke is said to drive 

 away parasites, and at the same time imparts to the material 

 a perfume perceptible at some distance. As for scents, how- 

 ever, for rubbing on the body, a kind of sweet-smelling very 

 compact grey clay is used, and a species of touchwood which 

 smells" like musk. The clay is brought from the south, and 

 is sold at a high price. The body is always clean shaved, the 

 head only as a sign of mourning. 



The Wanyoro cut their finger-nails in the form of a triangle, 



