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or immodest person is a downright abomination to a 
follower of Mtesa’s court, and even the poorest peasants 
frown and sneer at absolute nudity. 
It has been mentioned above that the Waganda 
surpass other African tribes in craft and fraud, but this 
may, at the same time, be taken as an indication of 
their superior intelligence. This is borne out by many 
other proofs. Their cloths are of finer make ; their 
habitations are better and neater ; their spears are the 
most perfect, I should say, in Africa, and they exhibit 
extraordinary skill and knowledge of that deadly 
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weapon ; their shields are such as would attract ad- 
miration in any land, while the canoes surpass all canoes 
in the savage world. 
The Waganda frequently have recourse to drawing on 
the ground to illustrate imperfect oral description, and 
I have often been surprised by the cleverness and truth- 
fulness of these rough illustrations. When giving 
reasons firstly, secondly, and thirdly, they have a 
curious way of taking a stick and breaking it into small 
pieces. One piece of a stick delivered with emphasis, 
and gravely received by the listener in his palm, con- 
cludes the first reason, another stick announces the 
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