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- ↑ ANKOLE Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ J.F. Cunningham, Uganda and its people (London 1905), pp. 20-21.
- ↑ "No. 30576". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 March 1918. p. 3289.