46 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

lectual and more higlily cultivated might easily be found, but it would be difficult to find a more unafi'ected, noble, unselfish, patriotic woman than she. She is an example of human nature as it is sometimes found, pure and unspoiled by the veneer of civilisation.

The AYanyoro are not so fine a race as the Waganda, nor are their intellectual powers so fully developed. There are many very light-coloured people among them, their ordinary colour being a dark reddish brown. They are very cleanly in their persons, frequently bathing, and always washing their hands before and after eating. Their huts are dome-shaped ; but are not clean, and swarm with vermin. The people are great thieves, and rather treacherous.

When a king dies, his body is not buried until his successor has become established in the kingdom; and as there are frequently rival claimants to the throne, the body often remains above ground for a long time, being kept in a hut and watched by his favourite wives. The first act of a new king is to bury his predecessor.

There are no domestic animals excepting cows, goats, and lean fowls ; the cattle are very fine, but are subject to many diseases, for which copious bleeding from the neck seems to be the general remedy ; the blood thus obtained is often used for food, and apparently with no ill result.