Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
But the water dried up or disappeared somewhere, and the grasses, herbs, and plants began to spring up above the ground, and some grew, in the course of many moons, into trees, great and small, and the water was confined into streams and rivers, pools and lakes, and as the rai...
Kadu was a native lad of Uganda, who having made blood brotherhood with a young Zanzibari of his own age, asked permission to join our expedition of 1874-77. He survived the per...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Long ago, in the early age of Uganda, a leopardess, in want of a servant to do chores in her den, was solicited by a jackal to engage him to perform that duty. As Jackal had a v...
1. CHAPTER ONE.But the water dried up or disappeared somewhere, and the grasses, herbs, and plants began to spring up above the ground, and some grew, in the course of many moons, into trees,...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.I have done my very best to translate this story as closely as possible in order to give the faithful sense of what was said, yet I despair of rendering the little touches and f...
3. CHAPTER THREE.Kassim was a sturdy lad from the Basoko country, and a chum of Baruti. As yet he had never related to us a legend, though he loved to sit near the fire, and listen to the tales...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Master," began Kadu, after we had made ourselves comfortable before a bright and crackling fire, "some men say that animals do not reason, and cannot express themselves, but I...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN."I have a poor memory for legends," said Bujomba, one night, while we were in camp at Benga: "but I remember what a young Mtongole (colonel) named Saruti related to Mtesa after...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.We were all gathered about the fire as usual, when Safeni, the sage coxswain, exclaimed, "See here, boys; do you not think that for once in a while it would be well to hear some...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN."Master," said Kassim, one of the Basoko boys, "Baruti's tales have brought back from among forgotten things a legend I once knew very well. Ah, I wish I could remember more, bu...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.It is in such stories as the Fable of the Rabbit, the Leopard and the Goat, the Dog and the little Chicken, the Leopard, the Sheep and the Dove, the Crane, the Leopard and the S...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."Sir," said Baruti, one evening, "another story came to my mind to-day which was told to me a long time ago by an old man among the Basoko. I doubt whether you will like it, but...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.In 1876, while we were travelling towards the Albert Edward Nyanza, Sabadu and Bujomba and others of our Waganda escort would join us at our evening fire, and when they found wh...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.At a camp on the Upper Congo, in 1877, Chakanja drew near our fire as story-telling was about to begin, and was immediately beset with eager demands for a tale from him. Like a...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Baruti, which translated means "gunpowder," envied Matageza the "piece" of a dozen gay handkerchiefs, with which he had been rewarded for his excellent story, and one evening wh...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.We had a man named Kanga with us in 1883, which name seems to have been bestowed on him by some Islamised resident of Nyangwe by reason of some fancied suggestion made by some o...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN."Sir," said Baruti, after we had all gathered around the evening fire, and were waiting expectant for the usual story, "Kassim's tale about the City of the Elephants and the pea...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Sarboko, who was originally from Unyoro, a country which lies to the north of Uganda, and had been employed as a page by Mtesa, king of Uganda, protested that his version of how...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.On another night Baruti, whose memory was freshened by the reward which followed a story worthy of being written in the Master's book, told us about Kitinda and her wise dog, so...
6. CHAPTER SIX."Master," said Baruti, "I have been trying hard to recall some of the other legends I used to hear when I was very small, and I now recollect one, which is not very long, about...