LIFE AND MANNERS IN UGANDA. 
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With the fall of N amuj urilwa, young Pokino became 
Lord of all Uddu, from the Ivatonga valley to the 
Alexandra Nile, a district embracing over 3000 square 
miles, with twenty sub -chiefs recognising him as their 
master, possessing two great capitals, Namujurilwa’s at 
Masaka, and Pokino’ s, hundreds of women-slaves, and 
thousands of youthful slaves of both sexes, with cattle 
also by the thousand, and chief of a population number- 
ing over 100,000. What a change this — from the 
keeper of the lavatory to the Lord of Uddu ! 
Pokino’s life at his capital of Uddu, Masaka, is almost 
regal. He has “ eaten up ” the lands of two great chiefs, 
old Pokino and the lion-like Namujurilwa, and now out 
of the eater cometh forth meat, and out of the strong 
cometh forth sweetness. His sub-regal court is crowded 
with applicants and claimants for bounties, and slaves 
requiring to be fed, and good offices are given with a 
liberal hand, and cattle are slaughtered by hundreds, 
until Pokino’s open hand and large heart is published 
throughout Uganda. By this politic liberality he secures 
the affection of the natives of Uddu, the friendship of 
the great chiefs at the court, and the approbation of the 
Emperor. 
Is Pokino satisfied ? Not yet, for there remains one 
more office which Mtesa can give ; but he must wait 
awhile for this. 
The Emperor hears that there is a country called 
Usongora, west of Gambaragara* somewhere, rich in 
vast herds of cattle, and he commands Pokino to go and 
gather some of them. Immediately the great war-drum 
of Masaka sounds the call to war, and the natives from 
the banks of the Alexandra Nile, the slopes of Koki 
plateau, and all the lake shore from the Alexandra to 
the Katonga respond to it by thousands, for it is a call 
to them to gather spoil, and when did a peasant of 
Uganda linger at such a summons ? 
When Pokino begins his journey, he discovers he has 
a vast army at his command, for other chiefs also are 
* This part of Pokino’s history was related to me by Pokino himself, 
Kitunzi, Sambuzi, and his page. 
