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BANTU NEGROES 



Song. 



Tebawaya 



Tebaja kuwaya awo ndide a kumere 



N dowozalwa nyimbye Abemengo teba.ii 



Kuwaya nyimbye abebyalo tebaja 



kulima. 



Marching Song. 



Yakuba emundu ngagayala 

 Mukamawange katabazi sikyasenga 

 Basese nasenga Jumba ni Gabunga 

 Amaso gamyuka mwenywera omwenge. 



Tugire tugende ewamukwenda 



tweyanze ewamukwenda tweyanze ewa- 

 mugwanya 



tweyanze, tweyanze, tweyanze ewamuk- 

 wenda 



tweyanze. 



Olyokulya ewelwakuleta Tetoterotero i 

 Namukolantya omufumbiro mukazikitunzi 

 Afumbye emere mbisi namukolantya 

 Olwokulya ewelwamuleta. 



Translation. 



They do not speak. 



They do not know how to converse. I 



have eaten food. 

 Whom am I thinking of ? I hed to the 



people of Mengo. 

 They do not know how to converse. Those 



in the gardens do npt know how to 



cultivate. 



He fights despising his enemies. 



My master, I shall never serve a bad 



fighter. 

 Among the Basese I will serve Jumba 



and Gabunga. 

 My eyes get red when I drink beer. 



Let us go to the Mukwenda. 

 Let us return thanks at Mukwenda's. 

 Let us return thanks at Mugwanya's. 

 Let us return thanks, return thanks, 



return thanks at Mukwenda's. Let us 



return thanks. 



It was food that brought you, Tetoterotero? 

 What am I to do ? The cook, the wife of 



Kitunzi, has cooked unripe food. What 



am I to do with her ? 

 It was food that brought him. 



The following illustrations of the myths and folk-lore and beast stories 

 of Uganda will be found of great interest. I am indebted to Mr. J. F. 

 Cunningham for their collection : — 



Uganda folk-lore is very extensive. Amongst the chiefs it is slightly tinged with 

 Christian and Muhammadan traditions, but the following stories were taken down 

 direct from peasants, the narrator receiving one rupee for each of them : — 



The Creation. 



Kintu was the first man, and when he came from the unknown he found nothing 

 in Uganda— no food, no water, no animals, nothing but a blank. He had a cow 

 with him, and when he was hungry he drank her milk. 



One day as he roamed about searching for something he saw two girls just 

 dropping down from Mugulu (Heaven, or the Above). He stopped. The girls also 

 stopped a long way oflF. They were Mugulu's daughters, Nambi and her sister. The 

 girls were much surprised, and Nambi said : " Sister, look at the two things over 

 there. What can they be ? " The sister looked, but said nothing. Nambi continued : 

 '• We never saw anything like them before. Just go down and see what brings 

 things like these to such a place as the earth." 



'' How can 1 1 " replied the sister. " Look at those horns ! " 



