THE KINGDOM OF UGANDA 



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by a reed screen, you will enter a large, clean empty courtyard opening 

 into three or four other courtyards, in the last of which you may be 

 greeted by a band of native music — flutes, horns, drums, etc. After 

 passing through all these empty courts one arrives at the reception house. 

 This is a building with an immense thick thatched roof descending in 



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93. A PRESENT OB" FOOD, UGANDA 



a bold slope and lifted up over the eaves of the doorway. Ascending a 

 mud step or two, perhaps, we enter the dwelling, the roof of which is 

 supported by a great many palm poles, and is therefore fairly lofty after 

 the low doorway is passed. The floor is strewn with flue sweet' grass. 

 On this are placed closely woven mats or beautifully dressed skins, and 

 there are numerous stools and chairs, ^'o person of any consequence in 

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