nearly all Wanyoro, having been captured in that country
by king Mtdsa and given to Mlondo. They said their
teeth were extracted, four to six lower incisors, when they
were young, because no Myoro would allow a person to
drink from his cup unless he conformed to that custom.
The same law exists in Usoga.
C H A P T E R XVI.
BAIIR e l a b ia d .
FIRST VOYAGE ON THE NILE— THE STARTING— DESCRIPTION OF
THE RIVER AND THE COUNTRY— MEET A HOSTILE VESSEL— A
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT— DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS— JUDICIAL
PROCEDURE— MESSAGES FROM THE KING OF UGANDA— HIS
EFFORTS TO GET US BACK—DESERTION— THE WANYORO TROOPS
— KAMRASI— ELEPHANT-STALKING DIABOLICAL POSSESSIONS.
In five boats of five planks each, tied together and
To N’yassi, i3iA. caulke(1 **& mbugu rags, I started with
twelve Wangttana, Kasoro and his page-
followers, and a small crew, to reach Kamrasfis palace
in Unyoro—goats, dogs, and kit, besides grain and dried
meat, filling up the complement—but how many days it
would take nobody knew. Paddles propelled these vessels,
but the lazy crew were slow in the use of them, indulging
sometimes in racing spurts, then composedly resting on
their paddles whilst the gentle current drifted us along.
The river, very unlike what it was from the Ripon Falls
downward, bore at once the character of river and la.kp.—
clear in the centre, but fringed in most places with tall
rush, above which the green banks sloped back like park
lands. I t was all very pretty and very interesting, and
would have continued so, had not Kasoro disgraced the
Union Jack, turning it to piratical purposes in less than
one hour.