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between his escort and the villagers, which sometimes end in blows, 

 and it requires great tact on his part to keep the peace. The king's 

 pages are overbearing, and treat the villagers abominably, requir- 

 ing them to perform impossibilities, and beating them if they refuse. 

 As a rule, if the villagers hear that the king's guests are coming, 

 they leave their huts, preferring to lose their goods rather than be 

 maltreated by the king's pages. On one occasion, when travelling 

 with a very small escort, I nearly lost my life through their plunder- 

 ing propensities. The drummer, who marches at the head of the 

 caravan, receives the head of any cow that may be killed for food on 

 the march as a perquisite. — It. W. F. 



Wahuma (Wawitu). — The Wahiiina inhabit scattered villages 

 throughout the whole of Uganda. They number between 40,000 

 and 50,000. They are probably descended from the original in- 

 habitants of Abyssinia, and there is no reasonable doubt but that the 

 ancestors of the reigning families in Uganda and Unyoro were 

 Wahuma. Known by the name of Wahiima, Watusi, and Wawitu, 

 they are found throughout the east of Africa from 2 N. to 7 S. 

 lat. They are tall, of pure blood, with good-looking oval faces, thin 

 lips, and straight noses, The women are particularly beautiful, and 

 the Waganda like to have them as wives, a very superior offspring 

 resulting from such marriages. The Wahuma are everywhere herds- 

 men. They live principally on milk and meat, and seldom engage 

 in agriculture. On account of this, it is impossible in Uganda, where 

 the Wahiima are despised, to induce a Wagauda to have anything to 

 do with the breeding of cattle. The Wahiima do not mix with the 

 tribes among whom they live ; they have a language of their own 

 and live in out-of-the-way villages. — It. W. F. 



Bows and Arrows. — Emin Pasha supplies precise information on 

 the weapons of the Akka and other tribes with whom he became 

 acquainted. In connexion with this subject, a paper by Dr. Ratzel 

 " On the Geographical Distribution of Bows and Arrows in Africa " 

 (Berichte d. Sticks. Ges. d. Wiss., Phil.-hist. CI., 1887, pp. 232-252, 

 map) will prove of interest. 



Bark Cloth. — A species of fig (Ficus lutea), which grows abun- 

 dantly throughout Uganda, is the tree from which rribugu or bark 

 cloth is procured. The bark is taken from young trees ; two 

 incisions are made round the trunk, a third, which is vertical, 

 joining the other two. The bark is then stripped off and the 

 outer surface carefully removed, after which it is laid on a smooth 

 square block of wood and rapidly beaten, in time to a low chant, 

 with heavy wooden mallets. These mallets have circular grooved 



