put up, there resided some grandees, the chief of whom
was the king’s aunt. She sent me a goat, a hen, a basket
of eggs, and some plantains, in return for which I sent
her a wire and some beads. I felt inclined to stop here a
month, everything was so very pleasant. The temperature
was perfect. The roads, as indeed they were everywhere,
were as broad as our coach-roads, cut through the
long grasses, straight over the hills and down through the
woods in the dells—a strange contrast to the wretched
tracks in all the adjacent countries. The huts were kept
so clean and so neat, not a fault could be found with them
—the gardens the same. Wherever I strolled I saw
nothing but richness, and what ought to be wealth. The
whole land was a picture of quiescent beauty, with a
boundless sea in the background. Looking over the bills,
it struck the fancy at once that at one period the whole
land must have been at a uniform level with their present
tops, but that, by the constant denudation it was subjected
to by frequent rains, it had been cut down and
sloped into those beautiful hills and dales which now so
much pleased the eye; for there were none of those quartz
dykes I had seen protruding through the same kind of
aqueous formations in Usui and Karagtib ; nor were there
any other sorts of volcanic disturbance to distort the calm
quiet aspect of the scene.
From this, the country being all hill and dale, with
m - ' miry rush-clrains in the bottoms, I walked, To Sangtia, 1 s t . . . . . » carrying my shoes and stockings m my hands,
nearly all the way. Rozaro’s “ children” became more and
more troublesome, stealing everything they could lay their
hands upon out of the village huts we passed on the way.
On arrival at Sangtia, I found many of them had been
seized by some men who, bolder than the rest, had overtaken
them whilst gutting their huts, and made them
prisoners, demanding of me two slaves and one load of
beads for their restitution. I sent my men back to see
what had happened, and ordered them to bring all the
men on to me, that I might see fair play. They, however,
took the law into their own hands, drove off the Waganda
villagers by firing their muskets, and relieved the thieves.
A complaint was then laid against N’yamgundti by the
chief officer of the village, and I was requested to halt.
That I would not do, leaving the' matter in the hands of
the governor-general, Mr Pokino, -whom I heard we should
find at the next station, Masaka.
On arrival there at the government establishment—
To Masaka, 2d. a larSe of grass huts, separated
one from the other within large enclosures,
which overspread the whole top of a low hill—I was requested
to withdraw and put up in some huts a short
distance off, and wait until his excellency, who was from
home, could come and see me; which the next day he did,
coming in state with a large number of officers, who
brought with them a cow, sundry pots of pombé, enormous
sticks of sugar-cane, and a large bundle of country
coffee. This grows in great profusion all over this land
in large bushy trees, the berries sticking on the branches
like clusters of holly-berries.
I was then introduced, and told that his excellency was
Halt, 3d and h a . the aPPointe<l governor of all the land lying
between the Katonga and the Kitangülé
rivers. After the first formalities were over, the complaint
about the officers at Sangtia was preferred for decision,
on which Pokino at once gave it against the villagers, as
they had no right, by the laws of the land, to lay hands
on a king’s guest. Just then Matila arrived, and began to
abuse N’yamgundti. Of course I would not stand th is ;
and, after telling all the facts of the case, I begged Pokino
to send Matila away out of my camp. Pokino said he
could not do this, as it was by the king’s order he was