MOOSSAH'S ACCOUNT OF KARAGUE AND UGANDA. 55 
the sorcerer ; and but one woman was killed to be 
placed in the grave with the old king. 
Our exploration of the northern kingdoms enabled 
us to ascertain how far the mass of information 
gleaned from our good friend Moossah was correct. 
I can honestly say that, though he had never visited 
Uganda/* his hearsay, on the whole, was a marvel 
of accuracy: — "The Egyptian river flowed from the 
Lake Nyanza. Copper and gold are found in Uganda. 
[We discovered neither, however.] The king alone 
wears clothes, killing all others who do so. He keeps 
slaves, and has 3000 women. The people have 100 
each, and the youngest fellow 10 to 20, whom they 
steal or kidnap in war. The Karague people live en- 
tirely on milk diet, yet they are men fit for war. 
M'tezia, the king of Uganda, is a * boorra admi/ bad 
man ; but being great friends with Eumanika (of 
Karague), he will send you from 300 to 400 men to 
escort you. Smallpox is rife in Uganda yearly. The 
king has Zanzibar guns. At Uganda and Karague the 
sultans do not, as in other countries, claim one tusk of 
the killed elephant. Karague people carry about grog 
in calabashes ; one sort being an intoxicating, fiery 
liquor, the other mild and good. Ehinoceros (white) 
are numerous. The king of Uganda makes people 
kneel in front of him, commanding them not to expose 
their skin or feet before his 400 or 500 women. The 
reed-grass huts of Karague and Uganda are so high 
that strong fires may be burned in them. Musicians 
of every sort there ; king has five clocks sent him 
* At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther 
than Karague ; hut I observe that Speke, in his Journal, states that 
Moossah (or " Miisa," as he writes the name) had reached Uganda. 
