about it, or they will be sure to run aw ay back
here. If yo u are clever, they will follow you
to Usukuma. Once there, take the canoes and
paddles, because I give them to yo u ; and here
are my young nephew and cousin, who will follow
yo u to Uganda, and make friends with the Wa-
zinja, as far as Ihangiro, for you. When y o u reach
Uganda, I wish yo u to make Mtesa and myself
brothers, and we will exchange gifts. Y o u must
also remember to send my young men back
from Uganda. Good-bye. I have said all.”
I was also enjoined to send to Lukongeh by
his young nephew and cousin two suits o f crimson
and blue flannels, medicine for rheumatism and
headache, one revolver and ammunition, one
bale o f cloth, beads o f various kinds to the
amount o f 50 lbs., two fezes, one English rug,
one Kiganda canoe capable o f carrying forty
men, two tusks o f iv o ry , Usoga goat-skins,
otter furs, and iron and brass wire— all o f which
o f course I promised most faithfully to send.
Lukongeh and his chiefs were out early on
the morning o f the 7th June to bid me farewell.
But there were only five small canoes ready!
“ How is this, Lukongeh?” I asked. “ Never
mind, go on; and remember What I have said
to yo u , my brother. Lukongeh is t ru e ,” he
replied, with dignity.
“Wonderful m an ,” I thought, “ to have a
r e s p e c t for truth in this country. He is assuredly
one of the first. However, we shall see.”
We punted our boat through the narrow
Rugedzi Channel, and rowed to Kisorya. Lukon-
geh’s premier, his nephew and cousin, who
were to be our guides, were with us.
From the hills o f K iso ry a I obtained a capital
photograph o f the deep b a y which leads from
Speke G u lf to Rugedzi Channel, and o f the
mountains o f Urirwi, across the bay. From
Kisorya we moved to Ugoma, where we halted,
a sore trial to our patience, until the n t h June,
on which d a y , with twenty-seven canoes o f
Ukerewe, we rowed to Wezi Island,* situate
nearly midway in Speke Gu lf between Ukerewe
and Kagehyi.
The next d ay , upon landing at K a g eh y i, I
whispered instructions to Frank and Manwa S e ra
to haul up the canoes to a distance o f e igh ty
yards on land, and with the aid o f Lukongeh s
premier and the king’s relatives induced the
Wakerewe canoe-men, 216 in number, to s tore
their paddles in my hut.
The Wakerewé were then apprised o f th e
*This island has since had attached to it a sad interest.
At Wezi, Lieutenant Shergold Smith, and Mr. O’Neil, of
the Church Missionary Society, together with Sungoro the
Arab, and many of their followers, lately lost their lives
while endeavouring to remove the Arab’s women— among
whom was Lukongeh’s young sister—-from Ukerewe, without
the king’s permission or consent.