with delight the pleasure old and jaded Europe
would feel upon hearing o f these marvellous
fables o f Equatorial Africa. He was also ambitious
to witness my note-book filled with his
garrulity, and I fear he was a little disposed to
impose upon the credulity o f sober Christians.
However, with this remark o f caution to the
reader, his fables may be rendered harmless, and
we can accord him thanks for his interesting information.
Since I am publishing these geographical items,
I may as well append here, also in brief, some
other information obtained elsewhere relating to
Muta Nzige from a native o f Usongora, whom
we found at Kawanga with Sekajugu, one o f the
Watongoleh who accompanied us to Beatrice Gulf.
-When you leave Ruoko in Unyoro, you will have Gam-j
baragara to your right, and Usagara or Ankori will be on
your left. Uzimba, Ruigi’s country, will be four days’ journey
west of you.
“ On reaching Uzimba, if you turn to the left you will
reach Luhola. Usongora will be on your right hand.
' ' ° n y.°ur left wil1 aIso be Unyampaka, Kasita, Kishakka,
Chakiomi, Nytere, Buhuju, Makara, Unyamuruguru, Munya
Chambiro, and the Bwambu, who are cannibals.
“ If you go to your right from Ruigi’s, you reach Usongora,
Mata, two days after Nabweru, then Butwa. Standing at
Butwa, you will see Ruanda on the left hand.
“ The country of Ruigi is called Uzimba.
“ Kitagwenda is the name of the neighbouring country.
‘‘Unyamuruguru lies between Ruanda and Usongora.
“ All the Wasongora emigrated from Unyoro.”
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The following is information from a native o f
Unyampaka upon Muta Nzige:—
| “My king’s name is Bulema. Kasheshe is the great king
I f Uzimba. Ruigi is dead. Usongora, as you look towards
sunset, will lie before you, as you stand at Kasheshe’s. To
go to Usongora from Kasheshe’s, you go to Nkoni Island, then
to Ihundi Island, and then to Usongora.
“ Far to your left, as you face the sunset, you have Utumbi,
the Mahinda, Karara, and Kabuzzi Islands.
“ There is abundance of salt in Usongora, and we go from
Unyampaka (my country) to get salt, and sell it to all the
country round. Ankori country does not extend to Muta
Nzige. Buhuju aud Unyamuruguru lie between Ankori and
the lake.
“ Nyika is king of Gambaragara and Usongora. North of
Gambaragara is Toru, or Tori, country, a part of Unyoro.
Kabba Rega is the great king of all those lands. The medicines
(charms) of Unyoro are kept by Nyika on the top of
his high mountain. There are as many white people there
as there are black. On the top there is a little Nianja, and
a straight rock rises high out from the middle. There is
plenty of water falling from the sides of the mountain, sometimes
straight down, with a loud noise. Herds upon herds
of cattle, hundreds of them, are in Gambaragara and Usongora.
The people of Usongora are great fighters, they carry three
spears and a shield each, and they live on nothing but milk
and potatoes.”
I now proceed to give some “ reflections o f
a young philosopher o f Uganda, one o f the
pages o f Sambuzi, who had accompanied his
master in the Katekiro’s great raid upon Unson-
gora three years before.
This young lad startled me out o f the idea
that philosophizing was not a common gift, or