well made, many of them having a small knob at the upper end which is held in the hand. While paddling, the water people chant, and take a step forward as they catch the beginning of the stroke, and draw the foot back as they pull through. They keep the most perfect time. Ten of them paddle in an ordinary canoe. On this occasion we had two and-twenty paddles, as the canoe was a specially large one.

We arrived at Pania Mutumba's at the end of the second day — a very rich village, well built in straight lines, and with about three thousand inhabitants. The huts were square, but with roofs of the ordinary beehive shape. They were larger than the usual native hut, being thirty or forty feet high, and fifteen feet square on the ground. The only sanitary arrangements the village could boast of were a herd of pigs, which