instances recorded in my diary of similar cases. Both in Kasongo and Nyangwe every large house was fitted with one or more bathrooms, the arrangements of which were very ingenious. A large hollow log, or an old canoe with a small hole drilled through the bottom and closed by a plug when not in use, was suspended from the roof. When filled with water, it formed a most convenient shower-bath, and half a dozen logs, laid side by side in a depression in the ground, made a clean platform for the bather. The water was conveyed away by a trench, in which a hollowed log, carrying the waste water through the wall of the house to the exterior, was placed.

Every house or hut, however small, had an enclosure attached to it containing the same arrangements for cleanliness, with the exception only of the shower-bath.