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infant son Chua, about two years old, was proclaimed king of 

 Uganda and a council of regency was formed consisting of 

 Apollo Katikiro, Mugwanya, and Zacharias Kangao. For though 

 some of the Roman Catholic chiefs joined King Mwanga, 

 Mugwanya remained loyal to the British rule. All the great 

 chiefs live in houses which have an upper story, because King 

 Mw^anga one day issued a royal decree, that they were in 



MUGWANYA, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIME MINISTER OF UGANDA. 



future to dwell in such houses and forthwith were to build 

 them. Those who did not have the house ready by a certain 

 date were heavily fined, the king of course pocketing the fine. 



The " Kimbugwe," or "keeper of the royal umbilical cord," 

 was one of the great chiefs, but the ridiculous title has for- 

 tunately been suppressed, in the same way that, instead of 

 acknowledging thirty degrees of nobility, the Government have 

 simplified the matter by acknowledging only the first four 

 degrees as having a right to seats in the Great Council or legisla- 

 tive assembly of the nation. The Kimbugwe became the Kakun- 

 guru. He aspired to intermarry with royalty and married the 

 sister of King Mw^anga, for which the king made him pay extra 



