GOVERNMENT AND LANGUAGE. 223 the hare ran off into the forest. But when the crocodile got back his wife saluted him with " You fool ! I called to you that our guest had eaten the children."

There are also nursery tales, so to speak, of which I give an example in the original with a literal translation. This and similar tales are told to the children on their fingers, like the well-known story of the Five Little Pigs. Wachakusu ! Owe. Uvao wa ? Mvao kulya mpafu. Zengeddi ? Magu magu.

Lailao. Semakokilo. Wamlabba ? Mpulida biogerri. Parrot ! Yes. Where are you coming from ? I come from eating mpafu (a fruit of which parrots are very fond). Are they ripe ? Eipe, ripe (quite ripe). Swear (so). (Yes by) Semakokilo (a former king of Uganda). Have you seen him ? I hear talk (of him).

The Waganda are, in many respects, mentally and physically superior, but morally inferior to most of the negro tribes I have seen. Indeed, morality among negroes seems to be in inverse ratio to the amount of clothing they wear, and the most naked tribes, when uncontaminated by external influence, are the most moral, and the best clothed, the most immoral. Where polygamy is the rule, as in Uganda, woman of course holds an inferior position, being looked upon principally as property, and the more wives a man has the richer he is, for he can have more ground under cultivation. This tends to encourage immorality, which is further