seen or not. B y this means on a certain day
as Nakivingi marched to the battle, Kibaga was
wounded to the death b y an arrow, and upon
the road large drops o f blood were seen falling,
and on coming to a. tall tree the king detected
a dead b o d y entangled in its branches. When
the tree was cut down, Nakivingi saw to his
infinite sorrow that it was the b od y o f his faithful
flying warrior Kibaga.
Succeeding Kyemba Came Tiwandeke, Mdowra,
Kaguru, Kikuruwe, and Ma’anda. It was the
fortune o f this last kin g , to discover news o f the
lost Kintu, after a most remarkable and romantic
manner.
Though history and fable are silent respecting
the acts o f many o f Ma’anda’s predecessors, we
may well believe that each king made efforts to
discover the missing Kintu, as the belief that
he was still alive obtained as firm credence in
the reign o f Ma’anda as in the days o f Chwa
and Kimera. With Ma’anda this belief was Very
strong, and spurred b y the hope that some day
it would be his happy fortune to be sucessful,
he was ardent in the chase, penetrating great
forests, and traversing extensive plains and valleys,
ostensibly to hunt game, but really to hunt up
news o f Kintu.
It happened one d ay , after returning to his
capital from one o f these expeditions, that a
peasant living not far o ff was compelled from
lack of fuel for his family to enter a forest to
cut wood. Having over-exerted himself, and
being v e ry much fatigued, and his home being
far, he resolved to sleep in the forest, near his
wood-pile. For the sake o f security and uninterrupted
sleep he constructed a rude hut, and
fenced it round with the branches o f the prostrate
trees, and when it was completed he laid himself
down and slept.
And a sound sleep it was, we may imagine,
induced b y hard labour and fatigue, though not
a dreamless one. F o r in his sleep, it is said,
he dreamed a strange dream, wherein he thought
he heard a voice, which said, “ Go to a p la ce
in this forest, where the trees are v e ry thick,
round an open space near a stream running b y ,
and y o u will there see something which will
give yo u great wealth, and make y o u a grea t
chief.” Three times the dream was repeated.
These words caused the heart o f the sleeping
peasant to bound for jo y ] so much so that it.
woke him, and then he began to regret that
the g o od which was promised him was but a
dream and a mockery. But reflecting that he
knew the place described, for he had often been
there, and that it was not v e ry far off, he thought
he might as well ob ey the voice in the dream,
if only for the sake o f satisfying his curiosity.
He had dreamed the same dream thrice, and
each time the voice had been emphatic and
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