he could easily put his brothers to death. Mtesa always said that Mwanga was a most gentle and obedient son. Apparently in those days he was not the vicious character he turned out to be later on, for he did not kill his brothers when he ascended the throne. Kalema, another brother, did, however, murder his kinsmen. He had them all conveyed to an island, or, rather, a raised piece of land in Budo, some eight miles from Mengo, around which he dug an enormous trench. Across the trench was thrown a pole, which served as a bridge to convey a very small amount of food. When the poor wretches were half starved he threw fire across, burning the grass huts in which they were living, and as the inmates crawled out he shot at them and killed them, some half-dozen in all. Mwanga's later disposition was undoubtedly the result of the practice of polygamy and other sins.
Daudi Cwa was born on August 8, 1896,
