[FN#10] If One Asked The Name Of A Tree, And It Happened To Be The Kind From Which This

Cloth was made, the answer would be "mbugu." If, again, the question was as to the bark, the same answer;

And the same if one saw the shirt, and asked what it was. Hence I could not determine whether the word had been originally the name of the tree, of its bark, or of the article made from the bark, though I am inclined to think it is the bark, as there are many varieties of these trees, which, being besides being called mbugu, had their own particular names.

[FN#11] Rumanika's present. - One block-tin box, one Raglan coat, five yards scarlet broadcloth, two coils copper wire, a hundred large blue egg-beads, five bundles best variegated beads, three bundles minute beads - pink, blue, and white.

[FN#12] Nnanaji's present. - One deole or gold-embroidered silk, two coils copper wire, fifty large blue egg-beads, five bundles best variegated beads, three bundles minute beads - pink, blue and white.

[FN#13] Since named by Dr P. L. Sclater "Tragelaphus Spekii." These nzoe have been drawn by Mr Wolf, from specimens brought home by myself.

[FN#14] Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height, 5 ft. 8 in.

[FN#15] I.e. Dead Locust Lake, - Luta, dead - Nzige, locust.

[FN#16] In 'Blackwood's Magazine' for August 1859.

[FN#17] See p. 211.

[FN#18] 1 block-tin box, 4 rich silk cloths, 1 rifle (Whitworth's), 1 gold chronometer, 1 revolver pistol, 3 rifled carbines, 3 sword-bayonets, 1 box ammunition, 1 box bullets, 1 box gun-caps, 1 telescope, 1 iron chair, 10 bundles best beads, 1 set of table-knives, spoons, and forks.

[FN#19] The straight road down the Nile through Unyoro no one dares allude to at this time, as the two kings were always fighting.

[FN#20] Some say a group of forty islands compose Sese.

[FN#21] Named by Dr P. L. Sclater, Cosmetornis Spekii. The seventh pen feathers are double the length of the ordinaries, the eighth double that of the seventh, and the ninth 20 inches long. Bombay says the same bird is found in Uhiyow.

[FN#22] It is questionable whether or not this word is a corruption of Bahr (sea of) Ingo.

[FN#23] This obviously was an allusion to the way in which the first king of Uganda was countenanced by the great king of Kittara, according to the tradition given in Chapter IX.

[FN#24] 1 double rifle, 1 block-tin box, 1 red blanket, 1 brown do., 10 copper wire, 4 socks full of different-coloured minute beads, 2 socks full of blue and white pigeon eggs, 1 Rodgers's pen-knife, 2 books, 1 elastic circle, 1 red handkerchief, 1 bag gun-caps, 1 pair scissors, 1 pomatum-pot, 1 quart bottle, 1 powder flask, 7 lb.

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