not quite acquit the old gentleman o f the imputation
o f gallantry, for one night, at Nakaranga,
he slew with his own hand a lover who had
come to serenade one o f his numerous Dulcineas.
Besides the character I have credited him with,
I must dub him as a jealous, vindictive, choleric
old pagan, despite his fine features and smooth
tongue.
Wearied with gazing on the vast multitude,
which rolled b y steadily in wave , after wave, a
living tide o f warriors, and having gained sufficient
insight into their numbers and method of
travel, I left my post o f observation and struck
into the line o f march behind Sabaganzi’s rearguard,
where, to sa y the least, I was much annoyed
b y the rush o f hurrying warriors, all o f whom
thought it necessary to push on to the front in
spite o f all obstacles. T he guards given to me
b y Mtesa to conduct me on the road did their
utmost to check the furious, persistent impetuosity
o f the on-coming warriors, and used their stout
staffs with angry violence. The blows, however,
were quite harmless, as they were warded off
b y ample shields o f wood and cane.
Perceiving it useless to contend against such
a weight o f numbers and such well-established
custom, I submitted to the annoyance patiently,
as the march to Nakaranga would not occupy
more than two or three days.
A t Mpani, where we camped that night, we
learned that the Wavuma, soon after our departure
from Jinja, or the “ Stones ,” had paid
a visit to it, and set the abandoned imperial
quarters and the camp on fire, besides spearing
some five or s ix unfortunates before the chief
appointed to guard the camp was aware o f
their presence. A t sunset we saw the canoes
of the Wavuma, some two or three hundred in
number, returning in triumph to their island.
Four days afterwards, or on the 1st September,
the army o f Mtesa occupied Nakaranga, where
it commenced to construct its camp, each chief
surrounded b y the men o f his own command in
the position assigned to him b y the Katekiro.
The legion commanded b y the officers o f the
queen-mother occupied the ground east o f Cape
Nakaranga, the chief Ankori and his fantastically
dressed Waso ga camped north o f Nana Masurie’s
people; to the gallant Mkwenda with his formidable
legion was assigned the entire north o f
the camp; and to the redoubtable Sekebobo,
when he should arrive from Na-Magongo Point,
was appointed the lake side, from Mkwenda
to the end o f Nakaranga Cape. T h e imperial
quarters occupied an area o f 400 yards square
in the centre o f the vast camp, and was jealously
guarded b y the bodyguard, the legions o f the
Katekiro, Chambarango, and Kimbugwe, b y
Kasuju with the guard o f the imperial family,