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kavya ' (the two last syllables of Mtesa's title when young 

 Mukavya, * king'), and rattling their spears. Behind them, at a 

 quick march, came the musket-armed body-guard of the Empe- 

 ror, about two hundred in front, a hundred on either side of the 

 road, enclosing Mtesaand his Katekiro, and two hundred bring- 

 ing up the rear, with their drums beating, pipes playing, and 

 standards flying, and forming quite an imposing and warlike 

 procession. 



' Mtesa marched on foot, bare-headed, and clad in a dress of 

 blue checked cloth, with a black belt of English make round his 

 waist, and like the Roman emperors, who, when returning in 

 triumph, painted their faces a deep vermillion his face dyed a 

 bright red. The Katekiro preceded him, and wore a dark-grey 

 cashmere coat. I think this arrangement was made to deceive 

 any assassin who might be lurking in the bushes. If this was 

 the case, the precaution seemed wholly unnecessary, as the march 

 was so quick that nothing but a gun would have been effective, 

 and the Wavuma and Wasoga have no such weapons. 



" After Mtesa' s body-guard had passed by, chief after chief , 

 legion after legion, followed, each distinguished to the native ear 

 by its different and peculiar drum-beat. They came on at an 

 extraordinary pace, more like warriors hurrying up into action 

 than on the march, and it is their custom, I am told, to move 

 always at a trot when on an enterprise of a warlike nature." 



The war-cries of the Waganda begin by shouting the full title 

 of their respective chiefs, and end with the last syllable, thus : 



1 Mukavya, kavya, kavya!" 



' Ohamburango, ango, ango!" 



' Mkwenda, kwenda, kwenda!" 



' Sekibobo, bobo, bobo!" 



' Kitunzi, tunzi tunzi!" 



This perhaps explains why Speke spells thanks "N'yanzig," 

 for the Waganda return thanks by first saying, "Twiyanzi-} ? anzi- 

 yanzi," and this, when repeated rapidly, sounds like "N'yanzig." 

 About two hours after the main body began its march, Kasuju, 

 the guardian of the young princes and Mtesa' s women, preceded 

 by a thousand spears and followed by a similar number, trotted 



