end to most of them. Hence the world is so sparsely populated.
We must notice here a very remarkable similarity between this story and our own account of the Creation. Death is represented as coming into the world through the disobedience of the woman.
The body, they say, can die; but the spirit cannot die. They have no idea, however, that the spirit returns to the God who gave it. What they believe is, that the spirit remains somewhere near the body, and must be attended to, just as when alive. Much in the same way as the Chinese believe in ancestral worship, so the Baganda take the greatest care of the graves of their ancestors, and pay attention to the wants of the spirits.
This is especially so with kings. As their first king came down from heaven, they say they must be divine, and so their spirits must be worshipped, or if not actually worshipped, special attention must be paid to them. As
