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formerly by unscrupulous owners as a means of gaining profit 
and notoriety. These men, however, would not handle the 
two ‘ ithathi ’ presented by me to the Museum, and their 
attitude is that of a superstitious European to whom the 
breaking of a looking-glass or the sitting down to table as one 
of a company of thirteen constitutes the running of a risk 
which every consideration prompts such a one to avoid. 
Nevertheless, the Kikuyu are becoming detribalised so 
rapidly that superstition is dying fast, and I doubt whether in 
another ten years it will be possible to witness a ceremony such 
as that seen by Mr. Hobley in the Kyambu District. 
STONE BOWL FOUND IN SOTIK 
By 0. M. Dobbs 
While at Sotik Post, about forty- five miles as the crow flies 
from Kericho, Lumbwa District, in July of 1917, a native 
brought me a stone bowl very similar in appearance to the 
bowl discovered in the same locality by Mr. Duirs and de- 
scribed in Journal No. 8 , Vol. IY. p. 145. Just below the 
Government Bungalow at Sotik, and about a quarter of a mile 
away, there is a small stream, dry except in the rains, called the 
Konjosio, both banks of which are used as a salt-lick by the 
natives. This stream runs through a very deep nullah, narrow 
at the bottom and widening out towards the top. Apparently, 
when the salt-lick first began to be used, the natives dug the 
earth away at the bottom ; and by degrees, as the roofs of these 
artificially formed caves fell in, they went on digging higher 
and higher up and farther and farther away from the stream. 
Most of the salt earth is now excavated from caves quite close 
under the surface soil and far from the stream and well above 
it. It was while he was digging on the side of one of these 
caves about 10 to 12 feet below the surface, that a native dis- 
covered this bowl embedded in the hard salt earth, and when 
