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chiefs is covered with beads and other ornaments and attached to a stand, the whole looking like a huge horse-shoe magnet with its keeper attached.

In the case of the king's there is a chief of high rank whose duty is to take care of it, and bring it to court on certain occasions.

When a chief dies he is buried in a wooden coffin.

Slaves are not buried, but their bodies are thrown into the jungle. Criminals who have been executed are generally left just where they fell, sometimes even in the highway, no one daring to remove them, and are devoured by the hyaenas and vultures.

When a man dies possessed of property it is divided amongst his sons, the wives, as already mentioned, going to the eldest son, though he may, if he likes, share them with the other children.

The Waganda have a great variety of names, but as a rule each person has only one, though the kings and some of the chiefs have more. Some ' names are special favourites with them, e.g. Mukassa, the name of the lubari of the Kyanza, for they see nothing improper in assuming the names of their gods ; names of animals and insects are also given to people. Many names have definite meanings ; thus, Mtesa means one who tries or decides causes ; Mkavia or Mukavia, another of Mtesa's names, means " he who makes to weep," being derived, by a process very common in the Bantu languages, from the verb " kavia," " to make to cry," which