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guilt or otlierwise of the accused by the colour of the fowls’ intestines. 
Another method of determining guilt is as follows : — If one man 
charges another of a crime which he denies, both drink a decoction 
of herbs, and whoever becomes drowsy is considered the delinquent. 
(Emin says the decoction is given to two fowls.) The stocks are 
also used for punishment, the culprits having one leg secured in a 
heavy block of wood ; sometimes they are left to die in the stocks, 
at others a large fine may release them. There is no real criminal 
class in Unyoro, and were it not that the people are so often incensed 
by the brutality and extortion of the Matongoli, the police, and the 
Bonasura, there would probably be very little crime indeed. The 
administration of justice has not reached the high standard to which 
it has attained in Uganda, and the trials in the former country are not 
conducted with the dignity and order which obtain in the latter. 
Slavery . — Slavery only exists to a limited extent in Unyoro. Of 
course slaves are captured from the surrounding district, and, as 
before mentioned, a good number are exported from the country, 
but in Unyoro itself the king and the great chiefs are the only ones 
who possess slaves. On the other hand, it must be stated that 
practically the Wanyoro themselves are all slaves, as they are under 
the complete control of those set in authority over them. 
Burial Customs . — Mourning in Unyoro is indicated by shaving 
the head and by laying aside all ornaments. Graves are dug three 
or four feet deep : for women, in the court of the house, on the right- 
hand side of the door ; for men, to the left of the door. The corpse 
is placed on its right side in an attitude of ordinary sleep. Young 
children are buried in the gardens near the huts (Emin mentions 
that the Wanyoro living near the Albert Lake bury their dead, 
irrespective of sex, in the centre of the courtyard). Over the grave 
a miniature hut is erected, in which tobacco, pipes^ bananas, and beer 
are placed. Speke gives an extraordinary account of a Wanyoro 
woman whose twins died. She kept two small jars in her hut as 
effigies of the children, and milked herself into these every evening, 
continuing to do so for five months, lest the spirits of the dead 
should persecute her. He says that the twins were not buried, as 
ordinary people, underground, but were placed in an earthen beer-jar, 
taken into the jungle and placed by a tree, with the pot turned 
mouth downwards. 
