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of prostrate trunks, deep holes and trenches, creeping plants, 

 thorns, and tendrils, with a whole skin and only his clothes in 

 rags. But yet these woods are beautiful. After passing the 

 little village Bedmot, and the Maya ravine, we left the huts 

 of Kijaja to our left, and, marching along a much better road, 

 we reached the boundary between Bionga's and Anfina's terri- 

 tories, at the Khor Nyaj, which was quite dry. We rested at 

 Boyoro's village, Merachak, and through the liberality of that 

 chief, who is subject to Anfina, my men enjoyed some banana 

 beer, so that the march was continued in better spirits. 

 The hills above Khor Tari were clothed with a grand wood, 

 whose trees towered to the sky and were hung with festoons 

 of climbing plants. Many trees upon our way had been 

 stripped of their bark to make beehives, though the manage- 

 ment of bees, if such a term may be applied to the mere hang- 

 ing up of hives and the extraction of the honey, is much more 

 actively carried on in the Lango district than here. 



On our arrival at Anfina's (Banyatoli), his men, in festive 

 attire, and drawn up in rank under waving Egyptian banners, 

 received us with a volley of guns. Anfina himself, their com- 

 mander, was dressed in English flannel, and did me the honour 

 of conducting me into his enclosure, where a fine large hut, 

 built in the Waganda style, was assigned to me, while my men 

 camped outside the fence. Bresents were immediately brought 

 me of quantities of sweet potatoes, fowls, eggs, eleusine, flour 

 ripe and unripe bananas, six elephant's tusks, and a goat. A 

 cow and the indispensable banana beer were added for my men. 

 I was not a little puzzled as to how I should requite this 

 bounty, for among the great chiefs of the south one cannot get 

 off with glass beads and other toys of the kind ; at any rate my 

 present must have pleased Anfina, for a large gourd vessel full 

 of banana wine (sandi) was then sent me. The reception pre- 

 pared for me, the crowds of people, the well-armed attendants 

 of the chief, becomingly dressed in cloths, the people decently 

 wrapped in skins and bark cloths, all vividly reminded me of 

 Uganda and the reception I met with on two occasions from 

 King Mtesa. I must say again, that, setting aside peculiari- 

 ties common to all Negroes, Anfina and Mtesa's Katikiro 



