UGANDA AND THE WAGANDA. 163 liquor thus obtained is squeezed through a strainer into large bottle-gourds. When first prepared it is sweet and non-intoxicating, and is then called " mubisi " ; but when allowed to stand it ferments, and becomes sour and intoxicating, and is then called " mwengi." Boiled millet is sometimes added, and it is then called " malwa." Mlamba is a weaker beer prepared in a similar manner. The Arabs have introduced the manufacture of spirits from this mwengi, and distil a most intoxicating liquor from it, containing a high percentage of alcohol.

Milk is used to a considerable extent by the Waganda, though some of them will never touch it.

It is almost always used in the curdled state, for the majority of the cattle are in the hands of the Wahuma, near the great forests, often two or three days' journey from the capital, so that it is impossible for the milk to arrive in its normal condition.

The domestic animals of Uganda are cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, and cats. As already mentioned, the Wahuma are the principal owners of the cattle,, which are large-made animals, either altogether hornless, or having only very short horns, the prevailing colour being brown or iron-grey, though cattle of all the ordinary colours are to be seen.

They are bad milkers, giving only from half a pint to a pint and a half at each meal ; for they will not give any milk unless the calf is sucking at the sametime, and should the calf die they become dry M 2