THE WIVES OF THE KING. 
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previous day. This custom of eating a little raw 
meat from an animal immediately after it has been 
killed is not an uncommon one, but I do not think 
they are fond of it after the meat has been allowed 
to become cold ; they then have it cooked. 
The language of Unyoro, as spoken by its natives, 
although it differs but slightly from that spoken in 
Karague, was not understood by our Seedees until 
they had been some weeks in the country. It had 
not the mumbling sounds of the Uganda dialect, 
where their d, g, k, &c, and most consonants, are 
doubled in pronunciation. The dialect of the Chopi, 
Kidi, and Grani was perfectly unintelligible to our 
Seedees. They said it sounded in their ears like 
English ; but there was no resemblance, every word 
uttered being guttural, and not thrown smoothly out 
from the lips, but kept in the mouth by closing the 
throat with the root of the tongue. Many of the 
names of our Seedees, such as M'kate, Uledi, and 
Sirboko, all coast words, were heard in Unyoro applied 
to men of the country. We also found this in 
Uganda ; and Kamarasi is the name of an Indian 
Bunnea, or corn-dealer, living at Pangani on the east 
coast of Africa. These names are diffused over the 
country by means of the slave-trade. 
The wives of the king lived upon milk, and were of 
enormous proportions — drinking the milk of from five 
to fifteen cows daily. They were slovenly and list- 
less, not able even to make butter, or assist in any 
household work, and never appearing at any audience 
given us. In the fields, while at work, the women 
wore a neat kilt of bark-cloth to the knees, and had 
nothing on the head or above the waist. One came 
