12$, and 13$.—When more sober, Bombay again came
to crave a thousand pardons for what he had done, threw
himself down at my feet, then at Grant’s, kissed our toes,
swore I was his Ma Bap (father and mother); he had no
father 'or mother to teach him better; he owed all his
prosperity to me; men must err sometimes; oh, if I would
only forgive him, and so forth. Then being assured that
I knew he never would have done as he had if a woman’s
attractions had not led him astray, he went to his work
again like a man, and consoled himself by taking Sangizo’s
sister to wife on credit instead of the old love, promising
to pay the needful out of his pay, and to return her to
her brother when the journey was over.
In the evening Virembo and Karambiile came to receive
the hongo for their chief, demanding 60 wires, 160 yards
merikani, 300 strings of mzizima, and 5000 strings of
white beads; but they allowed themselves to be beaten
down to 50 wires, 20 pretty cloths, 100 strings mzizima,
and 4000 kutuamnazi, or cocoa-nut-leaf coloured beads,
my white being all done. It was too late, however, to
count all the things out, so they came the next day and
took them. They then said we might go as soon as we
had settled with the Wahinda or Wanawami (the king’s
children), for Suwarora could not see us this time, as he
was so engaged with his army; but he hoped to see us
and pay us more respect when we returned from Uganda,
little thinking I had sworn in my mind never to see him,
or return that way again. I said to those men, I thought
he was ashamed to see us, as he had robbed us so after
inviting us into the country, else he was too superstitious,
for he ought at least to have given us a place in his
palace. They both rebutted the insinuation; and, to
change the subject, commenced levying the remaining
dues to the princes, which ended by my giving thirty-
four wires and six pretty cloths in a lump.
Early in the morning we were on foot again, only too
To Kitaré isth to ^ave got off so cheaply. Then
men were appointed as guides and protectors,
to look after us as far as the border. What an honour !
We had come into the country drawn there by a combination
of pride and avarice, and now we were leaving it
in hot haste under the guidance of an escort of officers,
who were in reality appointed to watch us as dangerous
wizards and objects of terror. It was all the same to us,
as we now only thought of the prospect of relief before us,
and laughed at what we had gone through.
Bising out of the UthungQ. valley, we walked over
rolling ground, drained in the dips by miry rush rivulets.
The population was thinly scattered in small groups of
grass huts, where the scrub jungle had been cleared away.
On the road we passed cairns, to which every passer-by
contributed a stone. Of the origin of the cairns I could
not gain any information, though it struck me as curious I
should find them in the first country we had entered governed
by the Wahüma, as I formerly saw the same thing
in the Somali country, which doubtless, in earlier days,
was governed by a branch of the Abyssinians. Arrived
at our camping, we were immediately pounced upon by a
deputation of officers, who said they had been sent by
Semamba, thé officer of this district. He lived ten miles
from the road ; but hearing of our approach, he had sent
these men to take his dues. At first I objected to pay,
lest he should afterwards treat me as Virembo had done;
but I gave way in the end, and paid nine wires, two chintz
and two bindéra cloths, as the guides said they would
stand my security against any further molestation.
Battling on again as merry as larks, over the same red
To vihemM, sandstone formation, we entered a fine forest,
l6th' _ and trended on through it at a stiff pace until
we arrived at the head of a deep valley called Lohügati,
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