[57] Discovery of the Source of the Nile, p. 31. [58] Worthy of mention here as being the southernmost extension of “Nilotic” influence among the East African races. [59] _Gazella granti_, the horns of which are far longer than is the case with any other gazelle, the animal itself being about the size of a fallow deer. [60] A Hima state, lying to the west of the Victoria Nyanza. [61] This, of course, was Lake Albert, the waters of which are slightly brackish. But it is often called the Salt Lake by the Arabs, from the large deposits of salt on its shores. [62] They meant, of course, the Rukuga, which flows through Marungu. [63] Hima or Huma is the commonest name applied locally to the Gala aristocracy in East Equatorial Africa. [64] Journal of the Discovery of the Sources of the Nile. [65] Throughout the writings of Burton, Speke, and Stanley, this race is called Wahuma. The most common term, however, by which they are known and know themselves is Bahima (_hima_ being the root and _Ba-_ the plural prefix). [66] This is the more curious because, on page 276 in the “Discovery of the Source of the Nile,” Speke writes of “a long range of view of the lake, and of the large island or group of islands called Sese, where the king of Uganda keeps one of his fleets.” [67] According to the traditions of the natives, syphilis and smallpox entered Uganda about the same time, and came originally from Unyoro. Unyoro received these plagues from the first Nubian slave- and ivory-trading caravans, which were the pioneers of Egyptian rule in the forties of the last century. Syphilis and smallpox were also brought by the Zanzibar trading caravans from Unyamwezi not many years later. [68] This, indeed, long before the British Protectorate, Gordon Pasha meditated, and was only restrained therefrom by the intervention of Sir John Kirk. [69] It is a question whether all these spirits were not in origin deified chiefs or medicine-men, who after death were supposed to become controllers of the lake, of the rain supply, of certain diseases, or of certain functions. Speke considers that a small element of phallic worship was mixed up with the old Uganda religion. [70] Muzungu, i.e., “White-man.” [71] This word is really a mis-hearing on Speke’s part for Bwana, which, again, is a corruption of Abuna, the Arab word for “our father.” Bwana is the respectful term, meaning “master,” which is applied in the Swahili language to all persons of superior position. It was the name by which Speke was known throughout his stay in Uganda, though it has long since been discarded for “Sapiki.” [72] Since, by the unspeakable barbarism of the British Administration, _cut down_! [73] Albert Nyanza. [74] Speke and Baker had met before in India. [75] Florence Ninian von Sass. Lady Baker survives her husband. [76] For something like twelve hundred miles, from the mouth of the Atbara to the sea, the Nile receives no further contribution of water.