6 TILLERS OF THE GROUND CHAP. 



Let us take another journey across the seas, and 

 we find ourselves among a people who have learnt 

 a great deal as compared with the poor Australians, 

 or the little, dark mountain people of the Philippines. 

 The latter, we are told, are always hungry, and 

 spend their whole lives in a ceaseless search for 

 enough to eat. This time we stop to look at a 

 people who are for the most part fat and well-fed. 

 It is Uganda, and the people are woolly-haired 

 negroes. They have cattle, sheep, goats, fowls, and 

 dogs as domestic animals, though not a great many 

 of these. They are thus far better off than the poor, 

 wandering Australians. Instead of getting meat only 

 when they can kill wild animals, they can, especially 

 the chiefs and rich people, kill their cattle, goats, 

 and sheep for food ; they also get eggs from their 

 fowls, and fish from the rivers and lakes. They eat 

 locusts and white ants, of which they are very fond, 

 and their country produces several kinds of edible 

 mushrooms as well as a good many fruits, seeds, 

 and roots, which are all used as food. 



But this is not nearly enough ; all the things 

 we have mentioned are, as it were, extras and 

 additions. Some of these things, like meat, can 

 only be got on special occasions, because the 

 Baganda, as these people are called, are not clever 

 at cattle - raising, and, therefore, cannot afford to 

 kill their cattle, except very occasionally. Just as 



