64 MRULI TO THE CAPITAL OF UNYORO.

tothem. I had taken with me Speke’s book, in order to astonish the king; and as I showed him his father, Kamrasi, ‘in it, as well as other pictures, especially the one of the famous dwarf Kimenya, who died several years ago, the pleasure of those present knew no bounds. ‘Two small men, but certainly not dwarfs, were immediately led before me, one of whom, a regular hump-back, formed a subject for the company’s hilarity. Hump-backed people, it appears, are not uncommon here; they are called oibango. ‘The conversation turned to the subject of white and coloured people; and in order to prove that light-coloured persons also exist here, a lanky young man was introduced to me, who was distinguished by the yellow eround-colour of his skin. He was offered to me as a present, but was declined with thanks. The production of white children (albinos) by black parents is certainly not uncommon, but there is no question of their having anything to do with the marriage between blood relations, notwithstanding Linant de Bellefond’s assertion that Mtesa believed this to be the cause. The latter probably heard such an opinion from Huropeans. In this country brothers marry their sisters without producing albinos. Albinos are supposed to bring with them misfortune, and are therefore not considered to be of equal birth with their brothers and sisters. JI had an opportunity subsequently in Uganda of examining carefully an albino girl. I shall therefore refer to this subject again. The presence of white people in Uganda is denied there, but still Albinos are found there; and I could only hear of one white man who had tried to go to Ruhanda, but had not succeeded—probably Stanley.

As on the 8th of October Kabréga again sent me supplies. I called to thank him, and was taken to his private house, where I, for the first time, found him clothed in Arab dress, and I chatted with him in Arabic. The fat women whom I saw on this occasion came up in all points to the description of Speke and Grant, those reliable and conscientious travellers, who saw similar fat women in Kardgwa. Such a custom as this of fattening up the king’s wives says more than all else for the original unity of these countries, or at least goes to prove the same origin of the rulers; the ruler of Uganda