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unclean and therefore uneatable. They are classed with 

 the weasel, ferret, mouse, tortoise, snail, lizard, and 

 mole (Lev. xi. 29, 30). 



The Tomb of Mutesa. This conspicuous building ' 

 surmounts one of the hills of Kampala. It is cone- 

 shaped, built of timber and reeds, and thickly thatched 

 with grass. It has one door and no windows, so that 

 the interior of the tomb is weird and mysterious. Two 

 rows of poles make a sort of aisle which is strewn with 

 grass, and a fence of spears protects the grave, which is 

 covered with bark cloth. There is a Uganda shield at 

 each end of the row of spears. A large sheet of bark 

 cloth consisting of white and dark squares arranged in 

 chequer or draught board pattern forms the background 

 of this sombre chamber of the dead. 



In connection with the tomb a complete household is 

 maintained as though the Kabaka was alive. These 



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keep a perpetual vigil in the deep shadows of the tomb 

 and are not allowed to come out. 



In savage Africa monuments to powerful chiefs are 

 rare. Among most tribes death means annihilation 

 and a man is forgotten unless he has children. It is, 

 however, a curious fact that the names of tyrants go 

 down to posterity more surely, and leave a more vivid 

 impression, than rulers famous for good deeds. Herod's 

 dreadful Massacre of the Innocents is known to a 

 multitude of men and women, whereas few know much 

 of the good qualities of the Emperor Hadrian. All 

 visitors to Paris are reminded, in many districts of 

 that famous and artistic city, of the destructive ability 

 of Napoleon Bonaparte. Tourists in Moscow are not 

 allowed to forget the atrocities of Ivan the Terrible. 

 In Kampala the name of Mutesa survives though in 

 the main it is a byword for cruelties and atrocities of 

 the vilest kind which earned for him the title " causer 

 of tears." Most writers on Uganda, in referring to the 

 cruelties of Mutesa and his successor Mwanga, state 

 that the details are too harrowing to publish. Severe 



