MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
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On his arm lie carried a reed- whistle three inches long, 
but it seemed to be more for ornament than use. 
In Uganda were both wind and stringed musical 
instruments, and the natives excelled in whatever they 
attempted. Night and day, in the palace precincts, 
the sound of drums was heard from the hill-sides. 
Every officer who commanded fifty men was allowed 
a kettle-drum. These were neatly made of wood, and 
when carried were slung on the back by shoulder- 
straps ; the short drumsticks were stuck in loops out- 
side, and a loose cover protected them from sun and 
rain. Each party of men had its regimental drum- 
call. Budja's was a certain number of taps in quick 
time, which we all soon got to distinguish from any 
other. But none sounded such a loud tenor " doogoo, 
doogoo, doogoo," as the king's small drums when he 
was out for the day. They were beaten so as to make 
the sounds swell from double piano to forte, and vice 
versa. At all levees bands of reed and bugle players 
attended, and also danced. The reeds, held like 
flageolets, were never without decorations of blue, 
white, and scarlet beads, with hair at their lower ends, 
and they sounded sweet and pleasing. Sometimes an 
enormous kettle-drum, slunsr over a stout Waganda's 
neck and shoulder, was allowed to join the wind in- 
struments. It was profusely decorated with shells, 
beads, brass bells, bouquets of long goat's hair, &c, 
and beaten by single taps, the drummer throwing back 
his head and body, and giving a deep long " Bah ! " 
after each tap. The harmonicon has been mentioned, 
also the stringed "nanga" or tambira, their most 
elegant instrument, looking, while laid in the lap to be 
played, like a harp in miniature. The queen generally 
