duma, the Arab Sungoro, and the Wangwana
chiefs. The jars o f pombe were broken, and
diligent search made in every place for beer.
This bloodshed upon the soil o f Usukuma had
to be paid for out o f my cloth-stores to mollify
Prince Kaduma, and further payment was required
for the privilege o f burial.
The ju ry which I convened to adjudge the
case sentenced the murderer to death; but, as
I would not consent to this extreme measure,
the sentence was changed to two hundred lashes
and the chain, until his arrival at Zanzibar, when
he might be surrendered to his prince. The
drunken madman Rehani, though he had been
inspired to the fury which led him to fracture
a man’s skull b y the sight o f his dead brother,
was also condemned b y the jury, for endangering
the life o f a perfectly innocent man, to fifty
lashes. These sentences, faithfully executed
with due ceremony in presence o f all the W a ngwana,
affected them greatly, and I to ok advantage
o f this scene to call the attention o f
the bully Msenna, and others who had distinguished
themselves in the previous d a y ’s ebullition
o f madness, to the punishment which must
assuredly follow the commission o f such dreadful
acts.
On the 5th July, to my great jo y , the scouts
sent to Lukongeh in search o f the missing
canoes returned with two o f them, but o f the
third we received no news, until a y e a r later—
after our arrival at Ujiji— when we heard that
they had deserted and had proceeded direct to
Unyanyembe with their guns. The crews of the
two canoes, now happily restored to us, informed
me that th ey had been driven b y the gale
to seek shelter on the mainland o f Ukerewe,
where they were instantly seized and conveyed
to Lukongeh, when, instead o f being slain, as
the natives expected the captives would be,
they were kindly treated b y the king, proving
to the islanders that the white man had only
acted b y his orders.
On the 6th July, after giving farewell presents
to Prince Kaduma and his clever, genial princess,
to the Arab Sungoro, Prince Kipingiri of Lutari,
and Kurereh— though the two latter little deserved
them— as well as to many others, I embarked
all the people, animals, and effects of
the Expedition, and b y ten o’clock we were
safely clear o f Kipingiri’s power and vicious
intents and, for the last time, o f Kagehyi.
There was not one feeling o f regret in my
breast at leaving this place, where the E x p e dition
had found a camp for over four months.
Not that the village was in any w a y destitute
of comforts, for these it afforded, nor that the
natives were in any manner repugnant to me,
for they were not; but the objects for which
we came into the land could never be attained
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