Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . o the inhabitants of Uganda) do not use carriages ofany kind, the roads are amply sufficient for their purposes. The Wagandahave even built bridges across swamps and rivers, but their knowledge ofengineering has not enabled them to build a bridge that would notdecay in a few years. Like many other tribes which bear, but do not deserve, the name ofsavages, the Waganda possess a curiously str
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . o the inhabitants of Uganda) do not use carriages ofany kind, the roads are amply sufficient for their purposes. The Wagandahave even built bridges across swamps and rivers, but their knowledge ofengineering has not enabled them to build a bridge that would notdecay in a few years. Like many other tribes which bear, but do not deserve, the name ofsavages, the Waganda possess a curiously strict code of etiquette, whichis so stringent on some points that an offender against it is likely to losehis life, and is sure to incur a severe penalty. If, for example, a manappears before the king with his dress tied carelessly, or if he makes amistake in the mode of saluting, or if, in squatting before his sovereign,he allows the least portion of his limbs to be visible, he is led off to in-stant execution. As the fatal sign is given, the victim is seized by theroyal pages, who wear a rope turban round their heads, and at the samemoment all the drums and other instruments strike up, to drown KING MTESA AND HIS OFFICERS OF STATE. (378) STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 379 cries for mercy. He is rapidly bound with the ropes snatched hastilyfrom the heads of the pages, dragged off, and put to death, no one daringto take the least notice while the tragedy is being enacted. They have also a code of sumptuary laws which is enforced with thegreatest severity. The skin of the serval, a kind of leopard cat, for ex-ample, may only be worn by those of royal descent. Once Captain Spekewas visited by a very agreeable young man, who evidently intended awe into the white man, and wore round his neck the serval-skinemblem of royal birth. The attempted deception, however, recoiledupon its author, who suffered the fate of the daw with the borrowedplumes. An officer of r
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