To the admixture of the Hamitic and Negro elements amongst the Lacustrians may perhaps be attributed the curious blend of primitive and higher institutions in these communities. At the head of the State was a Kabaka, king or emperor, although the title was also borne by the queen-mother and the queen-sister. This autocrat had his _Lukiko_, or Council, of which the members were the _Katikiro_, Prime Minister and Chief Justice, the _Kimbugwe_, who had charge of the King's umbilical cord, and held rank next to the _Katikiro_, and ten District chiefs, for the administration of the ten large districts into which the country was divided, each rendering accounts to the _Katikiro_ and through him to the King. Each District chief had to maintain in good order a road some four yards wide, reaching from the capital to his country seat, a distance possibly of nearly 100 miles. Each District chief had sub-chiefs under him, independent of the chief in managing their own portion of land. These were responsible for keeping in repair the road between their own residence and that of the District chief. In each district was a supreme court, and every sub-chief, even with only a dozen followers, could hold a court and try cases among his own people. The people, however, could take their cases from one court to another until eventually they came before the _Katikiro_ or the King. Yet together with this highly advanced social and political development a totemic exogamous clan system was in force throughout Uganda, all the Ba-Ganda belonging to one of 29 _kika_ or clans, each possessing two totems held sacred by the clan. Thus the Lion (_Mpologoma_) clan had the Eagle (_Mpungu_) for its second totem; the Mushroom (_Butiko_) clan had the Snail (_Nsonko_); the Buffalo (_Mbogo_) clan had a New Cooking Pot (_Ntamu_). Each clan had its chief, or Father, who resided on the clan estate which was also the clan burial-ground, and was responsible for the conduct of the members of his branch. All the clans were exogamous[242], and a man was expected to take a second wife from the clan of his paternal grandmother[243]. No direct relations appear to exist between the Lacustrians and the _Wa-Kikuyu_, _Wa-Kamba_, _Wa-Pokomo_, Wa-Gweno, _Wa-Chaga_, _Wa-Teita_, _Wa-Taveita_, and others[244], who occupy the region east of Victoria Nyanza, between the Tana, north-east frontier of Bantuland, and the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro. Their affinities seem to be rather with the _Wa-Nyika_, _Wa-Boni_, _Wa-Duruma_, _Wa-Giryama_, and the other coast tribes between the Tana and Mombasa. All of these tribes have more or less adopted the habits and customs of the Masai.