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mainly co-ordinate with the area over which the Luganda language was 

 spoken. Had Uganda definitely included at the present day a part 

 of Busoga on the east and the country of Kisiba on the west (which 

 lies to the south of the Kagera River), it would include all the Luganda- 

 speaking countries. As a matter of fact, it is the British Government, 

 which for various reasons decided not to include Busoga within the limits 

 of the Uganda kingdom, and which assented to a small portion south of 

 the Kagera River coming within the German sphere, that has brought 

 about the existence of an " Uganda irredenta." 



The following is a list of the kiugs of Uganda from the present day 

 back to the name of Kimera, the assumed founder of the dynasty. This 

 list is compiled by me from such information as could be obtained from 

 intelligent chiefs who were still versed in their country's traditions. It 

 cannot claim to be historically accurate any more than any other rendering 

 of floating traditions. Some of the names may be synonymous for the 

 same individual, or they may be the names of independent and rival 

 monarchs who reigned simultaneously. Local tradition points to the 

 graves of nearly all these monarchs as still existing in the district of 

 Busiro, which, in some respects, seems to have been the nucleus of the 

 Uganda power. Monseigneur Streicher informs me that in travelling 

 about Busiro he has counted thirty-eight tombs alleged to be the burial- 

 places of successive kings who reigned before Mutesa. The following is a 

 tentative list of the Uganda kings. This list differs slightly from the 

 previous catalogues given by Wilson, Stanley, and Stuhlmann. 



Kimera (said to have been called '• iluganda "). 



Tembo. 



Kigala. 



Nakibingo I. 



AYampamba, or Matebe. 



Kamanya I. 



Suna I. 



Zeinba. 



Kimbugwe (? a mayor of the palace, a powerful minister. See p. 683). 



Kaima „ „ „ v » » 



Nakibingo II. 



Mulondo. 



Tewandilje. 



Juko. 



Kaemba. 



Kalemera. 



Ndaula. 



Kagala. 



Mawanda. 



Mwanga I. 



Katerega. 



