Chapter III. 
and a few women they are not loaded with necklaces and 
bracelets. 
Many a traveller has been astonished by their complex social 
order, a veritable feudal system, while in their legends and 
traditions, in the designs of their household utensils made of 
plaited grass, in the form of their musical string instruments, in 
their astronomical symbols carved upon horns, and in certain 
burial rites, indications have been suggested of relations and 
contact with ancient Egypt. 
VISIT OF A CHIEF WITH HIS COURT, BRINGING PRESENTS. 
The Baganda have preserved the history of their ancient 
dynasty by pure verbal tradition. It consists of thirty-six 
names of kings, and must date back as far as the fourteenth or 
fifteenth century. 
The Suahili porters formed a smaller part of the caravan 
than the Baganda. The Suahili are a cross between Arabs 
and Bantu negroes. Coming originally from the coast, they 
are now scattered over the whole of Central Africa. 
