^{page 187 note 1} This paper is the result of nine months’ investigation on the spot from December 1931 to August 1932. For the theoretical approach to the subject I am indebted to Professor B. Malinowski. L.P.M.

^{page 193 note 1} Thus Roscoe's rather surprising statement that ‘Chiefs had to be on the alert to prevent people from burying their dead in good gardens, because the gardens thereby become freehold lands’, and that ‘if people were discovered burying their dead in a garden they were ordered to take the body away to the family-estate’ (The Baganda, p. 134), rests on a misconception.

^{page 196 note 1} In modern conditions the mutongole is the small holder who has bought his land. He is still formally installed by a representative of the royal authority, in the person of a messenger from the muruka (lowest-grade chief), to whom he gives a shilling or two and a ceremonial meal. In practice it would, of course, be rare for a man who could afford to invest in a plough not to be a mutongole.

^{page 198 note 1} The titles are not exclusive to this position, but are held by the subordinate authorities of any chief.

^{page 203 note 1} These figures were supplied me by Mr. H. B. Thomas, of the Land Office, Entebbe.