NORTH OF THE NYANZA LAKE UNKNOWN. 



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articles of diet ; milk is drunk by women only, and ghee 

 is more valued for unction than for cookery. The 

 favourite inebrients are mawa and pombe ; the latter is 

 served in neatly carved and coloured gourds, and the 

 contents are imbibed, like sherry cobbler, through a reed. 



From Kibuga the Arabs have heard that between 

 fifteen and twenty marches lead to the Kivira River, a 

 larger and swifter stream than the Katonga, which forms 

 the northern limit of Uganda, and the southern frontier 

 of Unyoro. They are unable to give the names of 

 stations. South of Kivira is Usoga, a low alluvial land, 

 cut by a multitude of creeks, islets, and lagoons ; in 

 their thick vegetation the people take refuge from the 

 plundering parties of the Waganda, whose chief built, 

 as has been told, large boats to dislodge them. The 

 Wasoga have no single sultan, and their only market- 

 able commodity is ivory. 



On the north, the north-west, and the west of Uganda 

 lies, according to the Arabs, the land of Independent 

 Unyoro. The slaves from that country vaguely de- 

 scribe it as being bounded on the north-west by a tribe 

 called Wakede, who 'have a currency of cowries, and 

 wear tiaras of the shell ; and the Arabs have heard 

 that on the north-east there is a " people with long 

 daggers like the Somal," who may be Gallas (?). But 

 whether the Nyanza Lake extends north of the equator 

 is a question still to be decided. Those consulted at 

 Kazeh ignored even the name of the Nyam-nyam ; nor 

 had they heard of the Bahri and Barri, the Shilluks on 

 the west, and the Dinkas east of the Nile, made familiar 

 to us by the Austrian Mission at Gondokoro, and other 

 explorers. 



The Wanyoro are a distinct race, speaking a language 

 of the Zangian family: they have suffered from the 



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