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SUPERSTITIOUS OBSERVANCES. 
superior in quality to that obtained from another tree, 
M'pira, which has not such adhesive properties. 
A very handsome branched lily (Crinum sp) was 
one day brought in by Speke, who had found it on 
the bank of the stream-bed. We could find no other 
in flower, but succeeded in preserving and bringing 
home this single specimen, which is now in the Kew 
herbarium. Later — probably by February — their 
bulbs would throw out fresh shoots for the year. A 
variety of resinous trees were also found — Boswellia, 
Balsamodendron, Khaya, Soymida, &c. 
Trees of the " Sheabutter," and others of similar di- 
mensions, sometimes had diminutive seats placed 
against their trunks, with the ashes of fire alongside. 
The seats had been placed there for some idolatrous 
purpose, to produce rain or probably to remove sick- 
ness. The only other trace of superstition we saw was 
in front of the chief entry to the village. Here a 
slab, two feet out of the ground, with a circular hole 
across, faced the entry in an upright position. A pole 
with a branch of the meelalla palm (Borassus) flying 
from its tip, was planted alongside it. 
We had no sport at Faloro, killing only one bush- 
boc, which we found feeding in the jungle of sweet 
pasture and shrubs by a stream. Further up, amongst 
rocks, we saw two descriptions of monkeys — one the 
Lungoor, with black face and bushy head of hair, 
which barked angrily at us ; and the " Yanee " — so 
called by our Seedees — a smaller monkey, red behind, 
and said to be so vicious that he will return a spear 
thrown at him ! Both were wild, and changed their 
ground so often that we did not obtain a shot. The 
way the Turks have of inflating a sheep or goat after 
