136 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinlurgli. [sess. 
Notes on the Wanyoro Tribe of Central Africa. By 
Robert W. Felkin, M.D., F.R.G.S., Fellow of the Anthropo- 
logical Societies of London and Berlin, &c. (With a Plate.) 
The paper which I have the honour of presenting to you to-night 
is similar in construction to those I have previously brought under 
your notice on the For, Madi, and Waganda tribes. 
As in former papers, I have written from notes of my own 
observations made when in the country and from information 
supplied me by people of the tribe. This time, however, in order to 
complete the description of the people, I have had recourse to the 
works published by Sir Samuel Baker, Dr Emin Pasha, Capt. Casati, 
and the late Dr W. Junker, and I have to acknowledge my 
indebtedness to these authors for information gleaned from their 
pages. 
I have followed, as before, the order of the Notes and Queries 
on Anthropology published in 1874. I mention this because a 
new edition of this work has just been published, but I thought it 
better that my notes should coincide with my previous papers rather 
than with the new edition. 
It might be thought unnecessary to publish an account of a tribe 
living in such near proximity to Uganda, but I think that a com- 
parison between the two tribes will bring out marked differences, 
and illustrate the well-known fact that many diversities exist among 
African tribes which are in some respects closely akin. 
The portrait is from a photograph (taken by Herr Richard 
Buchta) of Mckachuppi, a Wanyoro princess. 
Unyoro is situated at an altitude of some 2600 to 3000 ft. above 
sea-level. It occupies a position towards the north, north-west, and 
west of Uganda, and is bounded on the north and east by the Nile, 
on the west by the Albert Nyanza, while on the south and south- 
west its boundaries are ill-defined. Its area is about 1500 square 
miles. 
* See The Albert Nyanza, by Sir Samuel Baker ; Beisen in Africa, by Dr 
Junker ; Emin Pasha in Central Africa, by Emin Pasha ; Tc7i Years m 
Equatoria, by Casati ; and Ugcmda and the Eg^jptian Soudan, by Felkin and 
Wilson. 
