UGANDA AND THE WAGANDA. 171 attacked by them will willingly run the risk of another visitation.

The occupations of the Waganda, generally speaking, may be said to be husbandry, house-building, and righting. The cultivation of the ground is chiefly carried on by the women, house-building and fighting being the only occupations which are considered worthy of men. The gardens of the Waganda are as a rule extremely neat, and are separated from one another and from the road by high fences of the tiger-grass, or by hedges of euphorbia and other bushes. The hoe is universally used both for turning up the earth and for removing weeds. The different plants, sweet potatoes, beans, sesamum, etc., are sown in separate plots, divided by paths, and kept carefully free of weeds. In making fresh beds for any plant the soil is generally turned up to a depth of about nine inches. The principal objects of cultivation, beyond those already enumerated under the articles of food, are tobacco and the bottle-gourd. The tobacco is usually sown pretty thickly in small beds, and when the seedlings are sufficiently la>rge they are planted out in rows. The bottle-gourds are generally grown over a framework of sticks, or are trained over the huts, the object of this being to allow the fruit to grow suspended in the air, that it may preserve its shape, for if it is allowed to rest on the ground the lower side becomes flattened. The banana or plantain is generally grown alone, as