so I let fly at their temples, and instead of killing, sent
the whole of them rushing away at a much faster pace
than they came. After this I gave up, because I never
could separate the ones I had wounded from the rest, and
thought it cruel to go on damaging more. Thinking over
it afterwards, I came to the conclusion I ought to have
put in more powder; for I had, owing to their inferior
size to the Indian ones, rather despised them, and fired
at them with the same charge and in the same manner
as I always did at rhinoceros. Though puzzled at the
strange sound of the rifle, the elephants seldom ran far,
packed in herd, and began to graze again. Fry, who
was always ready at spinning a yam, told us with much
gravity that two of my men, Uledi and Wadi Hamadi,
deserters, were possessed of devils (Phepo) at Zanzibar.
Ulddi, not wishing to he plagued by his Satanic majesty’s
angels on the march, sacrificed a cow and fed the poor,
according to the great Phepo’s orders, and had been
exempted from it ; hut Wadi Hamadi, who preferred
faking his chance, had been visited several times: once
at Usui, when he was told the journey would be prosperous,
only the devil wanted one man’s life, and one
man would fall sick; which proved true, for Hassani was
murdered, and Grant fell sick in KaraguA The second
time Wadi Hamadi saw the devil in Karagud, and was
told one man’s life would be required in Uganda, and
such also was the case by Kari’s murder; and a third
time, in Unyoro, he was possessed, when it was said that
the journey would be prosperous but protracted.
3 d.—Though we stormed every day at being so shamefully
neglected and kept in the jungles, we could not get
on, nor find out the truth of our position. I asked if
Kamrasi was afraid of us, and looking into his magic
horn; and was answered, “ N o; he is very anxious to see
you, or he would not have sent six of his highest officers
to look after you, and prevent the unruly peasantry from