. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . top, and is of deep tone. Stretched on it is a great piece of ox-hide, which is turned over the edge of the drum, and is first of all stretched by a firmly-plaited string of leather. Countless strips of leather are then woven into this string, and are tied to the drum lower down by another string. War-drums of this kind are held extremely sacred, and the loss of one is as much taken to heart by a Sultan as the loss of a flag by ourselves. The boats and oars of the Wassiba corre-spond with tho
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . top, and is of deep tone. Stretched on it is a great piece of ox-hide, which is turned over the edge of the drum, and is first of all stretched by a firmly-plaited string of leather. Countless strips of leather are then woven into this string, and are tied to the drum lower down by another string. War-drums of this kind are held extremely sacred, and the loss of one is as much taken to heart by a Sultan as the loss of a flag by ourselves. The boats and oars of the Wassiba corre-spond with those of Uganda {vide p. 22 et seq.\Trade in Kisiba may formerly have flourished KISIBA 99 tolerably well—at least, so far as it was carried onby the nobles of the country. The Sultansespecially had good stores of ivory, and keptspecial elephant-hunters. Now, with the dying out ofthe elephant and with the advance of civilization, all thishas greatly changed, but ivory is still to be seen in thehouses of the great Sultans. On the northern boundaryof Kisiba numerous Arabs have settled, in Kitangule,.
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