ARMS AND HABITATIONS OF THE MADI. 323 
We met with two new trees, both handsome, and 
one of them, the Sheabutter, called " Meepampa " by 
Manua, resembled an oak in girth and general out- 
line ; its flowers scented the air and were covered 
with the honey-bee. The other we found to be a 
new species of Boscia, with long lanceolate leaves 
and terminal inflorescence. The people here, though 
differing very little in their mode of painting them- 
selves from the G-ani, are called "Madi." Their 
women have the same small fringe in front, and the 
same appendage behind, formed of fresh green weeds, 
plucked daily from the edges of water, and hanging 
from their waists to their knees. Their arms are 
spears seven feet long, bamboo bows, bound round 
with leather thongs, and arrows of reed. As many 
as ten arrows, each with a different-shaped barb, are 
sometimes carried by one man ; their peculiarity is 
that they have no feathers, and their barbs are as 
straight as a nail, lance-shaped, or like a broad arrow 
having hooks ; and though none of those we saw were 
poisoned, all were cruelly notched, to make them more 
difficult of extraction. The interiors of their pali- 
saded villages are kept very clean; idol horns and 
miniature huts, near which grow medical plants, such 
as Bryophyllurn calycinum and Amaranthus (love 
lies bleeding) are always to be seen. The houses are 
cylinders of bamboo wicker-work, plastered inside to 
make them warm, and have steep roofs of bamboo and 
grass. Game-nets, arms, two-feet-long horns (made 
of gourd, the shape of a telescope), buffalo foot-traps, 
slabs for grinding grain, &c, are in the interior. The 
mode of roosting hens is novel ; a five-feet-long stick, 
having three prongs, is stuck into the floor of the 
