CHAPTEE VII. 



WAHIMA, WAKONDJA, AND SUAHILIS. 



HAVE already alluded to Kasagama, who was 

 found by Captain Lugard in Uganda, and was 

 by him instated as the sovereign of Toru. When 

 Kabbarega invaded Toru, of course Kasagama and 

 his people fled to islands in the Albert Edward 

 Nyanza. Neither he nor any of his chiefs had 

 the pluck to attempt any resistance whatsoever. 

 Major Owen and Mr. Grant reinstated Kasagama 

 in his possessions when they had driven out Kab- 

 barega 's people, and also made him sovereign of 

 a country called Usongora, which extends from 

 the Semliki to the Salt lake, thus giving him a 

 supremacy (which he, of course, looked upon as 

 absolute authority) over the Wawamba on the 

 western side of liuwenzori. Immediately the 

 Kuropeans had departed, Kasagama sent an expe- 

 dition to assert his authority over various of the 

 chiefs settled to the south-west of Kuwenzori. 

 This expedition performed its duty by seizing the 

 cattle of anybody who possessed such. At one 



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