212 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

In case of a civil war occurring in connection with the succession, all foreigners are taken to one place, where they are placed under the care of a chief, who has to provide them with food and shelter, and who is responsible for their safety so long as they remain there ; but if they go beyond the appointed limits, they do so at their own risk.

As already mentioned, foreigners are beginning to exercise a certain amount of influence over the people, and this increases year by year, and we are able to see a considerable advance in this respect since Speke's time. The Arabs, having been longest in the country, naturally have hitherto made the greatest impression on the people, though this has not been so great as might have been expected from the quickness with which the Waganda pick up and imitate anything new. The most marked change produced by foreign influence is in the matter of dress. In Speke's time mbugu were universally worn, and no person, except members of the royal family, was allowed to possess cloth ; now all that is changed. Mtesa has quite abandoned the use of the native bark cloth, and the majority of the chiefs rarely wear it ; and instead of its being considered a crime for a commoner to possess cloth, many even of the bakopi wear it. Fire-arms are yearly increasing in numbers, and will, no doubt, in time change the mode of warfare. Foreign fruits and vegetables have been introduced, and are being spread through the