Lake Chohoa and the Ruanda 



of bananas and milk, of which they eat and drink inordinate 

 quantities, would seen to be the ideal food. 



Conditions have changed very little in Ruanda since the 

 country first became definitely known to explorers some 

 thirty years ago. It still remains the greatest and one of 

 the last realms to be governed autocratically by a negro king, 

 whose word is law and who can command immediate and 

 unquestionable obedience from any one of his three million 

 subjects. 



It is a thousand pities but nevertheless undeniable that 

 this great domain must disintegrate before the advance of 

 western civiUsation. Even now signs of this are by no means 

 wanting, for together with the Kabare district on the Uganda 

 side it forms the richest cattle country in Africa to-day, 

 and will be bound to prove of immense value to the world's 

 food supply. The opening up of this rich country will, 

 however, be retarded to a great extent by the fact that the 

 Belgians (who have more than enough to manage in their 

 own colony) hold it under mandate from the League of 

 Nations. It is thus connected commercially with the west 

 instead of the east coast of Africa to which it geographically 

 and ethnographically belongs, and unless the railway pro- 

 jected by the Germans is carried into the heart of the district, 

 either from Tabora or Bukoba, it may be some time before 

 the Ruanda feel the menace of the outer world. In any 

 event, and before long, the unsullied nature and untrammelled 

 existence of both Watusi and Wahutu alike must fall before 

 a yapping and intriguing throng of money-grubbers. 



Now, Juhi Msinga* to give him his correct title, and the 



• The meaning of Juhi is, metaphorically, the one who cannot cross the 

 Malagarasi River or see Niragongo Volcano and live — an attribute of all the 

 Kings of Ruanda successively. 



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