Wiru

Now Wiru in the northern dialect changes to Waddu in the southern; hence

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Coffee was conveyed to the capital by the Wiru, also mbugu

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

In the earliest times the Wahuma of Unyoro regarded all their lands bordering on the Victoria Lake as their garden, owing to its exceeding fertility, and imposed the epithet of Wiru, or slaves, upon its people, because they had to supply the imperial government with food and clothing.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

He was but a poor man, though so successful in hunting that vast numbers of the Wiru flocked to him for flesh, and became so fond of him as to invite him to be their king, saying, "Of what avail to us is our present king, living so far away that when we sent him a cow as a tributary offering, that cow on the journey gave a calf, and the calf became a cow and gave another calf, and so on, and yet the present has not reached its destination?"

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

(bark-cloaks), from an inexhaustible fig-tree; in short, the lands of the Wiru were famous for their rich productions.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845