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THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



would induce any person to absent himself for any length of time from the pleasure of seeing 

 his sovereign. 



"All acts of the king are counted benefits, for which lie must be thanked: and so 

 every deed done to his subjects is a gift received by them, though it should assume the 

 shape of a flogging or fine; for are not these, which make better men of them, as necessary 

 as anything?. The thanks are rendered by grovelling on the ground, floundering about, and 

 whining after the manner of happy dogs, after which they rise up suddenly, take up sticks 

 spears are not allowed to be carried in court make as if charging the king, jabbering as fast 

 as tongues can rattle, and so they swear fidelity for all their lives." 



THE WASOGA. 



Several of the tribes adjacent to Uganda also show the influence of a Wahuma caste upon 

 a subject Bantu race. Thus east of Uganda, on the other side of the Nile, live the Wasoga, 

 who agree in most respects with the Waganda, but are blacker in colour, and contain a 

 larger proportion of Negro blood. They resemble the Waganda in stature and physique, in 

 the absence of bodily mutilations, and in the use of bark-cloth garments and of the banana 

 as the staple food. On the other hand, they offer a striking contrast to the naked people of 

 Kavirondo, their neighbours to the south-east. Lugard, in describing the Wasoga, remarks on 

 their superior type, adding that " their quick eyes and high foreheads bespeak a higher intelligence 

 than the Wakaviroudo." 



The Wasoga dress in long robes of bark-cloth, made by hammering the bark of fig-trees. 

 The costume consists of a long flowing mantle, which stretches from the shoulders or the waist 



to the ankles. But, as is so often the 

 case with African tribes, morality does not 

 coincide with decent dress. Polygamy is 

 prevalent, and the chiefs number their wives 

 by the hundred. 



The villages are large and open, and 

 consist of circular huts, with high, conical, 

 thatched roofs: in the largest huts the roof 

 is supported on vertical walls, but in the 

 huts of the peasants the thatch-cone rests 

 upon the ground. 



The main industry is agriculture, and 

 the staple food is the banana, which also 

 furnishes the chief native drink, a banana 

 beer or pombe. Hemp is grown and 

 smoked in small clay pipes. 



THE WAXYORO. 



On the side of Uganda opposite Usoga 

 is Unyoro, the country of the Wanyoro, 

 who are also a race of Bantu Negroes 

 modified by Wahuma influence. 



Baker, coming from the north, was as 

 much impressed by the contrast between 

 the chaos of the Nilotic Negroes and the 

 feudal organisation in Unyoro, as Stanley, 



Photo by Richard Buchta. coming from the south, was fascinated by 



A PRINCESS OF UNYORO (PULL-FACE) . the difference between the petty Bantu 



