rifle, and followed by half the village, if not more, women
included, we went to the place, but, instead of finding a
buck—for the men had stretched a point to keep me at
their village—we found a herd of does, and shot one at
the people's urgent request.
We reached this in one stretch, and put up in our
Urondogani old quarters, where the women of Mlondo
provided pombd, plantains, and potatoes, as
before, with occasional fish, and we lived very happily till
the 10th, shooting buck, guinea-fowl, and florikan, when,
Bombay and Kasoro arriving, my work began again. These
two worthies reached the palace, after crossing twelve considerable
streams, of which one was the Lhajerri, rising in
the lake. The evening of the next day after leaving me
at Kira, they obtained an interview with the king immediately
; for the thought flashed across his mind that
Bombay had come to report our death, the Waganda
having been too much for the party. He was.speedily
undeceived by the announcement that nothing was the
matter, excepting the inability to procure boats, because
the officers at Urondogani denied all authority but the
Sakibobo’s, and no one would show Bana anything, however
trifling, without an express order for it. ■
Irate at this announcement, the king ordered the Saki-
bobo, who happened to be present, to be seized and bound
at once, and said warmly, “ Pray, who is the king, that
the Sakibobo’s orders should be preferred to mine %” and
then, turning to the Sakibobo himself, asked what he
would pay to be released? The Sakibobo, alive to his
danger, replied at once, and without the slightest hesitation,
Eighty cows, eighty goats, eighty slaves, eighty
mbiigu, eighty butter, eighty coffee, eighty tobacco,
eighty, jowari, and eighty of all the produce of Uganda.
He was then released. Bombay said Bana wished the
Sakibobo to come to Urondogani, and give him a start
with five boats, five cows, and five goats; to which the
king replied, “ Bana shall have all he wants, nothing
shall be denied him, not even fish; but it is not necessary
to send the Sakibobo, as boys carry all my orders to kings
as well as subjects. Kasoro will return again with you,
fully instructed in everything, and, moreover, both he and
Budja will follow Bana to G-ani.” Pour days, however,
my men were kept at the palace ere the king gave them
the cattle and leave to join me, accompanied with one
more officer, who had orders to find the boats at once, see
us off, and report the circumstance at court. Just as at
the last interview, the king had four women, lately seized
and condemned to execution, squatting in his court. He
wished to send them to Bana, and when Bombay demurred,
saying he had no authority to take women in that way,
the king gave him one, and asked him if he would like to
see some sport, as he would have the remaining women
cut to pieces before him. Bombay, by his own account,
behaved with great propriety, saying Bana never wished
to see sport of that cruel kind, and it would ill become
him to see sights which his master had not. Viartingi
sent me some tobacco, with kind regards, and said he and
the Wazinza had just obtained leave to return to their
homes, K’yengo alone, of all the guests, remaining behind
as a hostage until Mtesa’s powder-seeking Wakungu
returned. Finally, the little boy Lugoi had been sent to
his home. Such was the tenor of Bombay’s report.
11th.—The officer sent to procure boats, impudently
saying there were none, was put in the stocks by Kasoro,
whilst other men went to Kirindi for sailors, and down
the stream for boats. On hearing the king’s order that
I was to be supplied with fish, the fishermen ran away,
and pombb was no longer brewed from fear of Kasoro.
12th.—To-day we slaughtered and cooked two cows
for the journey—the remaining three and one goat having
been lost in the Liiajem—and gave the women of the
place beads in return for their hospitality. They are