514 APPENDIX.

Ayu in the district of Kiri; Dufilé, Fatiké, Wadelai, Mahagi, and Songa in the district of Dufilé ; and Fadibék.

Emin Pasha’s original maps have been published in “ Petermann’s Mitteilungen,” and nearly all the names given in this volume will be found on sheets 1, 2, 7, and 8 of my Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, published by the Royal Geographical Society.—H. G. R.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Mrtrsa.—Mtésa was first heard of in Europe from Speke and Grant, who visited Uganda in 1862. He professed to trace back his descent to Kintu (or Ham), the founder of the dynasty. When I visited him in 1879 he was about forty-five years of age, a splendid man, some six feet high, well formed and strongly built. He had an oval face, and his features were well cut. He had large mild eyes, but if roused by anger or mirth they were lit up by a dangerous fire. He had lost the pure Mhuma features through admixture of Negro blood, but still retained sufficient characteristics of that tribe to prevent all doubt as to his origin. All his movements were very graceful; his hands were slender, well-formed, and supple; he was generally dressed in a simple white Arab kuftan. It is somewhat difficult to describe his character; he was intensely proud, very egotistical, and until near the end of his life he thought himself to be the greatest king on earth. In his youth, and in fact until 1878, there is no doubt that he was very cruel, but an illness from which he suffered certainly softened him. His chiefs often said to me, ‘‘ Ah, if Mtésa were well, there would be plenty of executions.” It has been said that he was extremely changeable and fickle, and to superficial observers he was so; that is to say, as far as his intercourse with Europeans went. If, however, one looks a little deeper into his character, one finds that his apparent vacillation was overruled by a fixed idea, which was to benefit his people, increase his own importance, and to get as much as possible out of the strangers who visited his court. This explains his being one day a friend to the Arabs, on another to the Protestants, and on a third to the Catholics. A new-comer, especially if he had a large caravan, was always the favourite of the hour. It is not difficult for any one to enter Uganda, but to get away again is no easy task, unless one is going for a fresh supply of goods. Mtc¢sa liked Europeans and Arabs to be present at his court ; it gave him prestige, and he also