one at Ngambdzi, they will be pensioned off. After the
coronation is concluded, it is expected Mtfea -will go
into Kittara, ■ on the west of Uganda, to fight first, and
then, turning east, will fight with the Wasoga; but we
think, if he fights anywhere, it will be with K a .m ra ,a i.
25th and 2 6th.—I sent Frij to the palace to inquire
after Bombay, and got the usual reply: “ Why is Bana
in such a hurry ? He is always for doing things quickly.
Tell my £ brother’ to keep his mind at rest; Bombay is
now on the boundary of Gani coming here, and will in
due course arrive.” Both Rtimanika’s men and those belonging
to Dr K’yengo asked Kamrasi’s leave to return
to their homes, but were refused, because the road was
unsafe. “ Had they not,” it was said, “ heard of Budja’s
telling Mtdsa that Kyengo’s children prevented the white
men from returning to Uganda ? and since then Mtesa had
killed his frontier officer for being chicken-hearted, afraid
to carry out his orders, and had appointed another in his
stead, giving him strict orders to make prisoners of all
foreigners who might pass that way; and, further, when
some twenty Wanyoro were going to Karagiffi, they were
hunted down by Mtesa’s orders, and three of their number
killed; for he was determined to cut off all intercourse
between this country and Karagud They must therefore
wait till the road is safe.”
Hearing this, Dr K’yengo’s men, who happened to be
as well off here as anywhere, accepted the advice § but
Rumanika’s men said, “We are starving; we have been
here too long already doing nothing, and must go, let
what will happen to us.” Kamrasi said, “ What will be
the use of your going empty-handed ? I cannot send
cows and slaves to Rtimanika when the road is so unsafe;
you must wait a bit.” But they still urged as before, and
so forced the king reluctantly to acquiesce, but only on
the condition that two of their head men should remain
behind until some more of Rumanika’s men came to
fetch them away—in fact, as we had been aocredited to
pirn by Rumanika, he wanted to keep some of that king"s
people as a security until we were out of his hands.
27th.—I sent Frij to the palace to ask once more for
leave to visit the Lfita Nzigd river-lake to the westward,
and to request Kamrasi would send men to fetch my property
from Karagub. He sent four loads of small fish
and one ppt of pombd, to say he would see me on the
morrow, when every arrangement would be made. Late
at night orders came announcing that I might write my
despatches, as sixty men were ready to start for Karague.
28th.— 1 sent one of my men with despatches to Kamrasi,
who detained him half the day, and then ordered
Tiim to call to-morrow. This being the fifteenth or
twentieth time Kamrasi had disappointed me, after promising
an interview, that we might have a proper understanding
about everything, and when no begging on his
part was to interrupt our conversation, I sent him a
threatening message, to see what effect that would have.
The purport of it was, that I was afraid to send men to
Karagttd, now I had seen his disposition to make prisoners
of all who visit him. Here had I been kept six weeks
waiting for Bombay’s return from Gani, where I only permitted
him to go because I was told the journey to and
fro would only occupy from eight to ten days at most.
Then Rumanika’s men, who came here with Baraka,
though daily crying to get away, were still imprisoned
here, without any hope before them. If I sent Msalima,
he would be kept ten years on the road. If I went to the
lake Luta Nzigd, God only knows when he would let me
come back; and now, for once and for all, I wished to
sacrifice all my property, and leave the countries of black
kings; for what Kamrasi had done, Mtesa had done likewise,
detaining the two men I detached on a friendly
mission, which made me fear to send any more and in-
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