on some points. On one occasion some boys requested that a big tree close to the house might be hewn down, because it made the wind blow. They thought the rustling of the leaves made the wind blow, instead of vice versa. Another boy, seeing a number of heads in an illustrated paper, asked why they had all been beheaded. In his own village, not long before, his chief had cut off the heads of four or five men, and stuck their heads on poles. The children used to be taught that no other people existed excepting the Baganda, the Basoga, the Bakede, the Banyoro, the Batoro, and other immediately surrounding nations. They thought the horizon was supported by props, just as they support their reed fences, and that it was the outside edge of the world.
The language is a very interesting one to study. It is one of the Bantu group, and, though very complete and very elastic in
