jungle of ten days, tenanted by a savage set of people,
who bunt everybody, and seize everything they see.
This tract is sometimes, however, traversed by the
Wanyoro and G-ani people, who are traders in cows and
tippet monkey-skins, stealthily travelling at night; but
they seldom attempt it, from fear of being murdered.
Baraka and Ulddi, sent from Karagud on the 30th January,
had been at Kamrasi’s palace upwards of a month,
applying for the road to G-ani, and as they could not get
that, wished to come with Mabrhki to me; but this Kam-
rasi also refused, on the plea that, as they had come from
Karague, so they must return there. Kamrasi had heard
of my shooting with Mtdsa, as also of the attempt made
by Mabruki and Ulbdi to reach Gani vid Usoga. He had
received my present of beads from Baraka, and, in addition,
took Uledi’s sword, saying, “ If you do not wish to
part with it, you must remain a prisoner in my country all
your life, for you have not paid your footing.” Mabruki
then told me he was kept waiting at a village, one hour’s
walk from Kamrasi’s palace, five days before they were
allowed to approach his majesty; but when they were
seen, and the presents exchanged, they were ordered to
pack off the following morning, as Kamrasi said the
Waganda were a set of plundering blackguards.
This information, to say the least of it, was very embarrassing—
a mixture of good and bad. Petherick, I now
felt certain, was on the look-out for us ; but his men had
reached Kamrasi’s, and returned again before Baraka’s
arrival. Baraka was not allowed to go on to him and
acquaint him of our proximity, and the Waganda were so
much disliked in Unyoro, that there seemed no hopes of
our ever being able to communicate by letter. To add to
my embarrassments, Grant had not been able to survey
the lake from Kitangtild, nor had Usoga and the eastern
side of the lake been seen.
15 th.—I was still laid up with the cold fit of the 1 0 th,
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