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unclean and therefore uneatable. They are classed with 
the weasel, ferret, mouse, tortoise, snail, lizard, and 
mole (Lev. xi. 29, 30). 
The Tomb of Mutesa .—This conspicuous building 
surmounts one of the hills of Kampala. It is cone- 
shaped, built of timber and reeds, and thickly thatched 
with grass. It has one door and no windows, so that 
the interior of the tomb is weird and mysterious. Two 
rows of poles make a sort of aisle which is strewn with 
grass, and a fence of spears protects the grave, which is 
covered with bark cloth. There is a Uganda shield at 
each end of the row of spears. A large sheet of bark 
cloth consisting of white and dark squares arranged in 
chequer or draught board pattern forms the background 
of this sombre chamber of the dead. 
In connection with the tomb a complete household is 
maintained as though the Kabaka was alive. These 
keep a perpetual vigil in the deep shadows of the tomb 
and are not allowed to come out. 
In savage Africa monuments to powerful chiefs are 
rare. Among most trdies death means annihilation 
and a man is forgotten unless he has children. It is, 
however, a curious fact that the names of tyrants go 
down to posterity more surely, and leave a more vivid 
impression, than rulers famous for good deeds. Herod’s 
dreadful Massacre of the Innocents is known to a 
multitude of men and women, whereas few know nmcli 
of the good qualities of the Emperor Hadrian. All 
visitors to Paris are reminded, in many districts of 
that famous and artistic city, of the destructive ability 
of Napoleon Bonaparte. Tourists in Moscow are not 
allowed to forget the atrocities of Ivan the Terrible. 
In Kampala the name of Mutesa survives though in 
the main it is a byword for cruelties and atrocities of 
the vilest kind which earned for him the title “ causer 
of tears.” Most writers on Uganda, in referring to the 
cruelties of Mutesa and his successor Mwanga, state 
that the details are too harrowing to publish. Severe 
