1104 AMONGST THE RESHIAT AND TO LAKE STEFANIE 



dhurra, and, in smaller quantities, beans, gourds, and tobacco ; 

 but tliey have no cattle. Tobacco, as a rule, is chewed only ; 

 but there were a few men here who smoked it in primitive clay 

 pipes. Till now we had not met with natives using pipes for 

 smoking since we left the coast. The Buma, Marie, and Donyiro, 

 none of them practise circumcision ; and they resemble each 

 other in general a]3pearance. Their weapons consist of inferior 

 spears, clubs of various, often very original forms, shields made 

 of buffalo or hippopotamus hide, and round knives, often from 

 eight to ten inches in diameter, worn on one or both hands as 



^TT-s in illustration. The only 

 l)eads they use are the 

 pierced eggs of ostriches. 

 The men adorn them- 

 selves with raised tattoo - 



fighting knife as worn 

 by marle, buma, and 

 d(3nyiro. 



ing, the scars being as 

 big as beans. The women 

 amongst the Buma and 

 Marie disfigure the lower 

 lip in a very remarkable 

 manner, boring it first, 

 and then gradually widening the opening till 

 a piece of ox-horn can be inserted, from 

 about three to three and a half inches thick, 

 by three inches long, the two openings of the 

 piece of horn being bunged up with wood. 

 The mouth is by this means kept open, the 

 lower incisors are broken off, the tongue 

 being left exposed to view, producing al- 

 together a most revolting appearance. The speech, too, is 

 necessarily stammering. 



The next morning Qualla had his hands full, buying all the 

 dhurra we wanted. The bartering, however, went on much 



CLUBS OF BUMA 

 AND MARLE. 



