T h e above forms a ve ry respectable list of
kings for a country in Central Africa anrl r.
? T e da “ s’56 3 no“ ^ 0-y the number o f names may be taken « a
indication. Many names may also have b e «
o r g o t te n - to be resuscitated perhaps b y some
future traveller with the patience and L e at
command to rescue them from oblivion
CH A P T E R V.
Life and manners in Uganda— The Peasant— The Chief Th
Emperor— The Land.
(October, 1875.)
To behold the full perfection o f African manhood
and beauty, one must visit the regions o f Equatorial
Africa, where one can view the people
under the cool shade o f plantains, and amid the
luxuriant plenty which those lands produce. The
European traveller, after noting the great length
and wondrous greenness o f the banana fronds,
the vastness o f their stalks and the bulk and
number o f the fruit, the fatness o f the sod and
its inexhaustible fertility, the perpetual springlike
verdure o f the vegetation, and the dazzling
sunshine, comes to notice that the inhabitants
are in fit accord with these scenes, and as perfect
o f their kind as the bursting-ripe mellow
bananas hanging above their heads. fe
Their v e ry features seem to proclaim, “ We
live in a land o f butter and wine and fulness,
milk and honey, fat meads and valleys.” The
vigour o f the soil ,- which knows no Sabbath,
appears to be infused into their veins. Their