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SOME OF THE COURTIERS
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followed in the rear of the earls, jostled with scarlet-coated Buganda nobles and tributary kings.

Among the throng hastening to pay their respects to the majesty of Buganda were representatives of the Bahuma lords or Bakama, as well as chiefs from Busoga. The fair-faced Lubambula of Koki from the west, and the scowling Wakoli, paramount chief of Busoga, who divided with Luba - known as being the captor of Bishop Hannington-authority to the east of Buganda. Here too were obsequious smiling Arabs from Muscat - men who can smile and smile and be villains with it all; pale-faced Englishmen from the cold North; runaway Egyptian soldiers from the Soudan; adventurers from the east coast and Madagascar; mountebanks, minstrels, dancers, dwarfs. This rabble found seats in the best places they could command outside, while we followed the earls through Mutesa's body-guard, which were drawn up in line, forming a passage reaching up to the entrance to the king's palace.

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