1891-92.] Dr R. W. Felkin un the Wanyoro Tribe. 167 
and Emin mentions that he found that some of the Xegro Shuli 
living to the east of the Nile, north-east of Unyoro, understood the 
language with comparatively little difficulty. Emin and Stanley 
liave published vocabularies of the Wanyoro language, and I give in 
the Appendix a specimen. It must be remembered, however, that 
these observers used a different system in writing down the sounds. 
Magicians and Divincdions . — In Unyoro there are many magicians 
or wizards, from the queen-mother, who is very celebrated, down to 
a kind of hermit, either male or female, who lives apart from human 
habitations, in some secluded forest glade. In nearly all cases the 
magicians wear a distinctive dress, variously contrived head-dresses 
of beadv/ork or feathers, and a profusion of charms, crocodiles’ teeth, 
lions’ claws, &c. Speke describes a magician who was supposed to 
find stolen or missing goods as follows : — “ A rain-gauge had been lost, 
and this magician was brought to find it. The necessary adept was 
an old raan, nearly blind, dressed in strips of old leather fastened 
to the waist, and carrying in one hand a cow’s horn priraed with 
magic powder, carefully covered on the mouth with leather, from 
which dangled an iron belt. The old creature jingled the bell, 
entered our hut, squatted on his hands, looked first at one, then at 
the other, inquired what the missing things were like, grunted, 
moved his skinny arms round his head as if desirous of catching air 
from all four sides of the hut, then dashed the accumulated air on 
the head of his horn, smelt it to see if all was going right, jingled 
the bell again close to his ear and grunted with satisfaction : the miss- 
ing articles must be found. To carry out the incantation more effectu- 
ally, however, all my men were sent for to sit in the open before the 
hut, when the old doctor rose, shaking the horn and tinkling the bell 
close to his ear. He then, confronting one of the men, dashed the 
horn forward as if intending to strike him on the face, then smelt 
the head, then dashed at another, and so on till he became satisfied 
that my men were not the thieves. He then walked into Grant’s 
hut, inspected that, and finally went to the place where the bottle 
had been kept. There he walked about the grass with his arm up 
and jingling the bell to his ear, first on one side, then on the other, 
till the track of hyena gave him the clue, and in three or more steps 
he found it. Hyena had carried it into the grass and dropped it 
there. Bravo for the infallible horn ! ” 
