Numerous other rules and restrictions are detailed by Sir J.G.Frazer, and it may be suggested that their object was to ensure that the life of the domestic animal and with it the life of the people should be conveyed pure and undefiled to the king through the milk.

The kings of Unyoro had to take their own lives while their bodily vigour was still unimpaired.

When the period for his death arrived the king asked his wife for a cup of poison and drank it.

"The public announcement of the death was made by the chief milkman.

Taking a pot of the sacred milk in his hands he mounted the house-top and cried, 'Who will drink the milk ?' With these words he dashed the pot on the roof; it rolled off and falling to the ground was broken in pieces.