176 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

Mtesa has several times changed the site of his palace, and consequently of his capital, for the houses of the katikiro or lord chancellor and principal chiefs are always built round that of the king, and consequently, when a fresh spot is chosen for the palace, a small town of houses springs up round it, and the old ones are deserted and soon fall to pieces / or are pulled down. The old capital of Banda, where Speke and Grant saw Mtesa, has totally disappeared, \ and not a single house is to be seen on its site ; and ' one or two other towns have shared the same fate.

1 At present Mtesa has two capitals, Eubaga and Nabulagalla, and lives sometimes at one and sometimes at the other ; but during the two years I was in Uganda he was living at Eubaga. Shortly before I left the country he changed the position of his palace, because he thought the place where it then stood was unhealthy : in this case he only moved a few hundred yards away, but even then the katikiro had to move his whole establishment, and to build new houses for himself within the orthodox distance from the palace.

The Waganda are very particular about their houses, and I have known a whole house pulled down and rebuilt for some trifling flaw or fault.

Cattle-breeding, which is the only other occupation to be noticed, is confined almost entirely, as already mentioned, to the Wahuma.

The manufactures of the Waganda are, for an