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before you Utumbi, the Mahinda, Karara, and Kabuzzi 
Islands. 
“There is abundance of salt in Usongora, and we oo 
from Unyampaka (my country) to get salt, and sell it 
to all the country round. Ankori country does not 
extend to Muta Nzige. Buliuju and Unyamuruguru lie 
between Ankori and the lake. 
“Nyika is king of Gambaragara and Usongora. 
North of Gambaragara is Toru, or Tori, country, a part 
of Unyoro. Kabba Rega is the great king of all those 
lands. The medicines (charms) of Unyoro are kept by 
Nyika on the top of his high mountain. There are as 
many white people there as there are black. On the 
top there is a little Nianja, and a straight rock rises high 
out from the middle. There 
is plenty of water falling 
from the sides of the moun- 
tain, sometimes straight down, 
with a loud noise. Herds 
upon herds of cattle, hundreds 
of them are in Gambaragara 
and Usongora. r I he people of -women -with coil of brass-work. 
Usongora are great fighters, 
they carry three spears and a shield each, and they live 
on nothing but milk and potatoes.” 
I now proceed to give some “ reflections ” of a young 
philosopher of Uganda, one of the pages of Sambuzi, 
who had accompanied his master in the Katekiro’s great 
raid upon Usongora three years before. 
This young lad startled me out of the idea that 
philosophizing was not a common gift, or that only 
members of the white race were remarkable for their 
powers of observation, by the following question : — 
“ Standee, how is it, will you tell me, that all white 
men have long noses, while all their dogs have very 
short noses,* while almost all black men have short 
noses, but their dogs have very long noses ? ” 
* The young philosopher had observed the broad short noses of my 
British bull-dog and bull terrier “ Jack,” and he had hastily arrived at 
the conclusion that all white men’s dogs were pug-nosed. 
