LIFE AND MANNERS IN UGANDA. 
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hand in order of rank, his musketeers on guard, and 
his drummers and musicians close by, while aloft wave 
the crimson-and-white-barred standards adopted by the 
empire. Before the Emperor was arranged the pots of 
test-beer. 
Pokino advances, prostrates himself in the dust, and 
begins to relate his adventures and his doings in Uson- 
gora, while ,the heroes of the great raid are enmassed in 
view and within hearing of his words. 
After the conclusion of the story, the Emperor says 
briefly, “ Drink, if thou darest.” 
Pokino rises, advances to the test-pots, receives the 
ladle, and dips it into the pombe ; then taking it up, he 
holds it aloft, and, turning to the warriors who followed 
him, cries aloud, “ Tekeh ? ” (“ Am I worthy or not ? ”) 
“Tekeh !” (“Thou art worthy !”) responds the mul- 
titude with a shout. 
Again he asks 
“Tekeh?” and 
again “ Tekeh ! ” is 
shouted with re- 
CANOES. 
newed acclamation, 
and, being found worthy, he drinks, utters his grateful 
Twiyanzis to the Emperor, and retires to permit others 
to advance and drink the test-beer. Those found 
worthy are rewarded, those unworthy are doomed to 
death by popular condemnation. 
Soon after this, Myanja, the Katekiro, was found 
guilty of the overweening pride of appropriating to 
himself the most beautiful of the female slaves without 
regarding his master’s right to select his allotment first, 
and the result of this was that Myanja was disgraced 
and shortly beheaded. 
The Premier’s place being now vacant, Pokino was 
appointed to fill it ; and thus was the once humble 
Magassa elevated to be next in power to the Emperor, 
with the utmost of his ambition fulfilled. 
He is now daily seated on the carpet at the right 
hand of his sovereign, controls all things, commands all 
men, and, when leaving the presence of his master, he 
