STANLEY. EXPEDITION. Central AFRICA & Equatoria. For this most interesting page we are indebted to Surgeon Parke who very kindly took the trouble to make sketches of the bowls & wrote the names under each. what better authority could we have than this.. it makes the page historically interesting. The hard clay of the sticky ant heaps takes a beautiful polish see the _KAVALLI_ bowl Albert NYANZA. The most original is from _AREWENI & ITURI_ Forest where the little people take the mid rib of the “Banana” which is cellular & by pushing a reed down they get the bore required, cut a hole & rolling up a piece of Banana leaf.. like a Grocer’s paper insert that for a Bowl & smoke. [Illustration: STANLEY EXPEDITION. SURGEON · T · HEAZLE PARKE. FORT BODO. ITURI · RIVER. BAMBOO MAZAMBONIS COUNTRY · ALBERT NYANZA Banana Leaf for Bowl. KAVALLI · COUNTRY ALBERT · NYANZA AREWENI · ITURI FOREST. ANKORI · Baked Clay polished. CENTRAL AFRICA. EQUATORIAL.] AFRICA Zanzibar at the present moment is a centre of public interest and the example given on the next page is an exceedingly good one, it is of carved wood & has much of the ARAB character in its form. The Large one is of wood also with good ornamentation, the Bowl is 4^{in.} in diam and the total length 12^{in.} this is used for smoking Wild Hemp or Bang—and sometimes known as. “_LIAMBA_.”—it is from _NYASSA. LAT 9° S. LONG. 31.^{E.}_ This is a pipe of mixed features as the arrangement is strongly allied to the Bushmen on the next page. it is however from N. W of Victoria nyanza UGANDA · NYASSA LAND. The Bowl is of dark clay with a gourd body. HABITAT doubtful [Illustration: E. AFRICA. ZULU. ZANZIBAR. KAFFIR N.W. of VICTORIA NYANZA. UGUNDA. NYASSA-LAND BANG NYASSA LIAMBA or Wild Hemp. CANNABIS. INDICA. BAND or BANGUE. SMOKING.] BUSHMEN · S. AFRICA. Now we arrive at the full swing of the Stone Bowls of Soap stone or “_STEATITE_” and the link with the last “UGANDA” Pipe will at once be recognised. The whole machine is most cumbersome& the size therefore—The Horn being some 18^{in.} must make it bad for Bushwork. Altho the tube can be unshipped most readily The Stone Bowls are carved with great care, the favorite form reminds us of the maces or “Martel de Fer” used in the real Iron Period.—There is found also the Duplex Bowl also in Steatite. [Illustration: Bushmen. S. AFRICA STEATITE BOWLS. STONE BOWLS] South Africa. The “Steatite” Bowls now show decidedly European influence, altho the most striking feature is the under disc which is probably added to give strength as the Steatite itself is very friable, its form reminds one of the inverted comb on the skull of a Gorilla which is very African. These specimens like many others are from that Great Store House of information The British Museum which happily secured many of the interesting examples collected by the late M^{r.} Bragg F.S.A. We can but regret that so complete a collection should ever have been dispersed—Sic transit.