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SO successful that he was joined by vast numbers of the people, to 

 whom he became a chief. 



Under his sway, the hitherto scattered people assumed the 

 character of a nation, and began to feel their strength. Their lead- 

 ing men then held a council on their government, and determined 

 on making Uganda their king. "For," said they, ''of what avail to 

 us is the king of Unyoro? He is so far distant that, when we sent 

 him a cow as a present, the cow had a calf, and that calf became a 

 cow and gave birth to another calf, and yet the present has not 

 reached the king. Let us have a king of our own." So they induced 

 Uganda to be their king, changed his name to Kimera, and assigned 

 his former name to the country. 



FOUNDING A KINGDOM. 



Kimera, thus made king, took his station on a stone and showed 

 himself to his new subjects, having in his hand his spears and shield, 

 and being accompanied by a woman and a dog ; and in this way all 

 succeeding kings have presented themselves to their subjects. All 

 the Waganda are, in consequence, expected to keep at least two 

 spears, a shield and a dog, and the officers are also entitled to have 

 drums. The king of Unyoro heard of the new monarch, but did 

 not trouble himself about a movement at such a distance, and' so the 

 kingdom of Uganda became an acknowledged reality. 



However, Kimera organized his people in so admirable a man- 

 ner, that he became a perfect terror to the king of Unyoro, and 

 caused him to regret that, when Kimera's power was not yet con- 

 solidated, he had not crushed him. Kimera formed his men into 

 soldiers, drafted them into different regiments, drilled and organ- 

 ized them thoroughly. He cut roads through his kingdom, travers- 

 ing it in all directions. He had whole fleets of boats built, and 

 threw bridges over rivers wherever they interrupted his line of road. 

 He descended into the minutest particulars of domestic polity, and 

 enforced the strictest sanitary system throughout his country, not 

 even suffering a house to be built unless It possessed the means of 

 cleanliness. 



Organization, indeed, seems now to be implanted in the \Va- 



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