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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

CHAPTER IX
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Nothing short of the grandest palace, a throne to sit upon, the largest harem, the smartest officers, the best dressed people, even a menagerie for pleasure--in fact, only the best of everything--would content him.

Fleets of boats, not canoes, were built for war, and armies formed, that the glory of the king might never decrease.

In short, the system of government, according to barbarous ideas was perfect.

Highways were cut from one extremity of the country to the other, and all rivers bridged.

No house could be built without its necessary appendages for cleanliness; no person, however poor, could expose his person; and to disobey these laws was death.
After the death of Kimera, the prosperity of Uganda never decreased, but rather improved.


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