The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke  






 -   They buried
Kimera with state honours, giving charge of the body to the late
king's most favourite consort, whose duty - Page 328
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They Buried Kimera With State Honours, Giving Charge Of The Body To The Late King's Most Favourite Consort, Whose Duty It Was To Dry The Corpse By Placing It On A Board Resting On The Mouth Of An Earthen Open Pot Heated By Fire From Below.

When this drying process was completed, at the expiration of three months, the lower jaw was cut out and neatly worked over with beads; the umbilical cord, which had been preserved from birth, was also worked with beads.

These were kept apart, but the body was consigned to a tomb, and guarded ever after by this officer and a certain number of the king's next most favourite women, all of whom planted gardens for their maintenance, and were restricted from seeing the succeeding king.

By his large establishment of wives, Kimera left a number of princes or Warangira, and as many princesses. From the Warangira the Wakunga now chose as their king the one whom they thought best suited for the government of the country - not of too high rank by the mother's side, lest their selection in his pride should kill them all, but one of low birth. The rest were placed with wives in a suite of huts, under charge of a keeper, to prevent any chance of intrigues and dissensions. They were to enjoy life until the prince-elect should arrive at the age of discretion and be crowned, when all but two of the princes would be burnt to death, the two being reserved in case of accident as long as the king wanted brother companions, when one would be banished to Unyoro, and the other pensioned with suitable possessions in Uganda.

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