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that none of them coul 1 lift it. Now, of all the three brothers, 

 he, Bumanika, al< ne could raise it from the ground ; and while 

 his brothers labored h: rd in a vain attempt to move it, he with 

 his little finger hell it i p without exertion. 



This disclosure *ed tc inquiries concerning a king's death and 

 burial, when the ling i elated that according to the customs of 

 the country, when a kh g died his body was sewed up in a cow- 

 skin and placed in a bo it floating in the adjacent lake, where it 

 remained for three days when decomposition set in and maggots 

 were engendered, three of which were taken from the putrid 

 body and carried into the palace; after remaining there three 

 days one of the n aggo s was transformed into a lion, another 

 into a leopard, an'. the third into a stick. After this the body 

 of the dead king was taken out of the boat and carried to a 

 sacred hill, where it was deposited on the ground and a large hut 

 built over it ; in this hut were placed five maidens and fifty cows 

 to provide entertainment and food for the royal spirit. The 

 doorway to the hut was f hen so strongly closed that the maidens 

 and cows perished. 



Rumanika continued to explain his greatness and that of his 

 ancestors by declaring tl at his grandfather was a most wonder- 

 ful man; indeed, Karag'ie was blessed with more supernatural 

 agencies than any other country. Rohinda the Sixth, who was 

 his grandfather, nuinbere 3 so many years that people thought he 

 never would die ; and he oven became so concerned himself about 

 it, reflecting that his son Dagara would never enjoy the benefit 

 of his position as successor to the crown of Karague, that he 

 took some magic powde/s and charmed away his life. His 

 remains were then taken to Moga-Namirinzi, in the same manner 

 as were those of Dagara ; but, as an improvement on the maggot 

 story, a young lion emerged from the heart of the corpse and 

 kept guard over the hill, from whom other lions came into exist- 

 ence, until the whole place became infested by them, and has since 

 made Karague a power and dread to all other nations ; for these 

 lions became subject to the will of Dagara, who, when attacked 

 by the countries to the northward, instead of assembling an army 



