amongst the royal family, probably contending for the
crown, such as we presume must have occurred in Abyssinia,
separated the parent stock, and drove the weaker
to hud refuge in Nkole, where a second and independent
government of Wahuma was established. Since
then, twenty generations ago, it is said the Wahtima
government of Karagud was established in the same
manner. The conspirator Rohinda fled from Kittara to
Karagub with a large party of Wahuma; sought the
protection of Nono, who, a Myambo, was king over
the Wanyambo of that country; ingratiated himself
and his followers with the Wanyambo; and, finally,
designing a crown for himself, gave a feast, treacherously
killed King Nono in his cups, and set himself on the
throne, the first mkama or king who ruled in Karague.
Rohinda was succeeded by Ntare, then Rohinda II., then
Ntare II., which order only changed with the eleventh
reign, when Riisatira ascended the throne, and was succeeded
by Mehinga, then Kalimera, then Ntare VII., then
Rohinda VI., then Dagara, and now Rtimanika. During
this time the Wahuma were well south of the equator,
and still destined to spread. Brothers again contended
for the crown of their father, and the weaker took refuge
in Uzinza, where the fourth Wahuma government was
created, and so remained under one king until the last
generation, when King Rtima died, and his two sons,
Rohinda, the eldest, and Siiwarora, contended for the
crown, but divided the country between them, Rohinda
taking the eastern half, and Siiwarora the western, at the
instigation of the late king Dagara of Karague.
This is the most southerly kingdom of the Wahtima,
though not the farthest spread of its people, for we find
the Wattisi, who are emigrants from Karague of the same
stock, overlooking the Tanganyika Lake from the hills of
Uhha, and tending their cattle all over Unyamtidzi under
the protection of the native negro chiefs; and we also hear
that the Wapoka of Fipa, south of the Riikwa Lake, are
the same. How or when their name became changed
from Wahtima to Wattisi no one is able to explain; but,
again deducing the past from the present, we cannot
help suspecting that, in the same way as this change has
taken place, the name Galla may have been changed
from Hubshi, and Wahuma from Gallas. But though in
these southern regions the name of the clan has been
changed, the princes still retain the title of Wahinda as
in Karaguó, instead of Wawitu as in Unyoro, and are
considered of such noble breed that many of the pure
negro chiefs delight in saying, I am a .Mhinda, or prince,
to the confusion of travellers, which confusion is increased
by the Wahuma habits of conforming to the regulations
of the different countries they adopt. For instance, the
Wahuma of LTganda and Karagtié, though so close to
Unyoro, do not extract their lower incisors; and though
the Wanyoro only use the spear in war, the Wahuma in
Karague are the most expert archers in Africa. We are
thus left only the one very distinguishing mark, the
physical appearance of this remarkable, race, partaking
even more of the phlegmatic nature of the Shemitie
father than the nervous boisterous temperament of the
Hamitic mother, as a certain clue to their Shem-Ham-
itic origin.
It remains to speak of the separation of Uddti from
Unyoro, the present kingdom of Uganda—which, to say
the least of it, is extremely interesting, inasmuch as the
government there is as different from the other surrounding
countries as those of Europe are compared to Asia.
In the earliest times the Wahuma of Unyoro regarded
all their lands bordering on the Victoria Lake as their
garden, owing to its exceeding fertility, and imposed the
epithet of Wirti, or slaves, upon its people, because they
had to supply the imperial government with food and
clothing. Coffee was conveyed to the capital by the