again, lie walked ahead in gigantic strides up the hill, the
pretty favourite of his harem, Lubiiga—beckoning and
waving with her little hands, and crying, “ Bana! Bana P
—trotting after him conspicuous amongst the rest, though
all showed a little feeling at the severance. We saw them
no more.
CHAP T ER SV.
MARCH DOWN THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF AFRICA.
KAKI— TEAGIO INCIDENT THERE— RENEWAL OF TROUBLES— QUARRELS
WITH THE NATIVES— REACH THE NILE— DESCRIPTION OF
THE SCENE THERE— SPORT— CHURCH ESTATE— ASCEND THE
RIVER TO THE JUNCTION WITH THE T.AKV — RIPON FALLS----
GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE— DESCEND
AGAIN TO URONDOGANI— THE TRUCULENT SAKIBOBO.
7 th to 11th.—W it h Budja appointed as the general director,
a lieutenant of the Sakibobo’s to furnish us with sixty
cows in his division at the first halting-place, and Kasoro
(Mr Cat), a lieutenant of Jumba’s, to provide the boats at
Urondogani, we started at 1 p .m. on the journey northwards.
The Wangfiana still grumbled, swearing they
would carry no loads, as they got no rations, and threatening
to shoot us if we pressed them, forgetting that their
food had been paid for to the king in rifles, chronometers,
and other articles, costing about 2000 dollars, and, what
was more to the point, that all the ammunition was in our
m I hands. A judicious threat of the stick, how- To Namavimdti, “ . . _ , ’ 7ft. ever, put things nght, and on we marched
To Namaouja^' ^Ye successive days to Kari— as the place
m' ’ was afterwards named, in consequence of the
To slri’ im." tragedy mentioned below — the whole distance
accomplished being thirty miles from
the capital, through a fine hilly country, with jungles and