226 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

in European style, to wait at table and perform other household duties.

Their skill in imitating articles of European manufacture has already been alluded to. In all kinds of instruction they show remarkable quickness, rapidly picking up a language when they go to a foreign country. They learn to read in a very short time. A large number of boys and young men were under instruction at our mission house in Rubaga, and learnt to read Swahili, and their own language in the Roman character, astonishingly quickly. The Rev. Gr. Litchfield, one of the Church Missionary Society's missionaries in Uganda, formed a singing class, instructing his pupils by the tonic sol-fa system, and in two or three months they were able to sing any simple tune at sight.

The Waganda have also a high idea of figures. They have native names for all numbers up to thousands, and it is a curious fact that the root of the names of all numbers which are multiples of ten, is the word ten ; e.g. kumi is ten ; makumi abili (two tens) is twenty ; kikumi is one hundred, and lukumi is one thousand. The Waganda are very fond of counting, and whenever they get hold of a book, the first thing they do is to count the leaves. The game of mweso, which has been already mentioned, is one which requires a considerable amount of calculation.

Thus it will be seen the Waganda are by no means