3 ;o kakuAk and fajelu countkies. 



of outsiders is very marked amongst the Kakuak and Fajelu, 

 who often wear a leafy dress, in imitation of the Makraka 

 tribes, instead of the leather apron usually worn by the Bari. 

 They are, however, conservative enough to retain their broad 

 tails of cotton threads. Earrings, too, are worn by both sexes 

 in the west, whereas they are very rarely seen in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Nile, and the Kakuak women alone wear a 

 quartz pin in the lower lip. It may also be worth mentioning 

 that, whereas the real Bari, the Shir, and the Mandari live in 

 permanent villages, which, once established, are never abandoned, 

 the divisions occupying the south and west have roving habits, 

 and like to change their villages from year to year. The 

 Marshia, who live in and around Bimo, and who are few in 

 number, occupy a rather isolated position in the general group. 

 Externally they resemble the Bari type, and are of very dark 

 complexion, and they appear to be the remainder of a large 

 tribe which in the course of time has been scattered. They 

 live rather exclusively, and marry among themselves, or with 

 girls they have bought from other tribes. They are very 

 skilful and industrious smiths. 



Passing by the chief zeriba of Bimo, which was encircled by 

 bananas, and where ten to fifteen Danagla lived, we descended 

 to Khor Geli, which flows into the Yei, and crossed it by 

 means of a swinging tree-trunk ; its depth varies from six to 

 eight feet, and it was thirty-two feet broad. An hour was 

 occupied in getting the people and goods across the bridge, 

 and we then ascended through a belt of sedges to the village 

 of Maga, a Morii settlement in the Fajelii country. 



Close by the village there is a very swampy depression 

 called Dange, containing about three feet of water, and ending 

 in a perfect wilderness of high grass, shrubs, and brushwood. 

 Chief Woda's row of huts, Wandi, forms the boundary here 

 between the Fajelii district and that of the true Makraka, whose 

 first village, Poro, had a very pleasing appearance. Conspicuous 

 among the cultivated plants were splendid Colocasias, manioc, 

 and Helmia, and an abundance of tobacco. Threatening rain 

 compelled us to camp at Chief Bandua's village, Abutii, which 

 consisted of twelve huts, as many corn stores, and therefore as 

 many wives. In the middle of the zeriba was a cleanly kept 



