The young chief lost no time after his arrivall
Jinja, but industriously set to work, and in J
few days had entirely rebuilt the houses, i j
surromded them with their respective cnur:.
and had cleared the whole camp from muck
accumulated rubbish, until the camp would have
pleased even fastidious Suna himself.
He then caused the war-drum to be sounded,
and, responding to its ominous call, all who were
capable o f lifting the spear, dwelling in the neighw
h ^ d i - Jinja’ gathered ro™ d
“ Warriors o f Uganda and children o f Suna
th b u” 16' Y ° U k " ° W how' «*► Suna slew
that ?h e w bef° that the chiefs o f Usoga alrle cKamiteem aenhd Isswlaonrdeallegiance
to hun; and how when Suna had returned
to Uganda, the Waso ga chief Rura head'
turnaT n r rebe“ ° n’ ^ chaI,en? ed Suna to re -
turn to Usoga to fight him. When Suna heard
he challenge i o f the boastful Rura, he only
t e and said, ‘L e t him wait a little.’ Suna
is too great to fight with Rura, for Kasindula
a Mtongoleh o f Sekebobo, is sufficient for him’
To-night we march to Nakaranga, and to-morrow
morning before sunrise Rura shall sleep with his
brothers who died before Kitenteh. Warriors
prepare yourse lve s!” ’
TinIh°Zh ZfTF' fU"y thirty miks fro- Kasmdula had reached about midnight the
Principal village o f the chief, and after surrounding
it with his people, fired the huts at daybreak,
thus expelling the sleeping Wasoga from
fthem, to fall b y the spears o f the ambushed
RVaganda. Having made clean w o rk o f all Rura’s
Kistrict, Kasindula gathered the spoil, and long
[before noon was far on his return to Jinja.
The Usoga confederacy hearing o f this raid
fcnd o f the death o f Rura and his sons, hurried
■to Nakaranga to avenge the slaughter, but they
■found only black desolation and emptiness in
■Rura’s district, while the raiders had escaped in
[safety to Jinja, whither th ey dared not follow
them, and accordingly returned, each chief to
[his own district.
After a few days’ rest Kasindula made another
raid in a totally different direction with similar
results, and again the W aso ga hurried up, only
■to find the houses all consumed, the warriors
all dead, and the women and children and cattle
all deported away..
“What manner o f man is th is ,” asked the
astonished W aso ga o f one another, “ who comes
in the night, like a hyena, and vanishes with
the daylight, with his maw gorged with b lood ?”
Consoling themselves, however, with a v ow to
be revenged on him at a fitting opportunity,
they returned again to their own districts.
But hard upon their heels followed the wary
and resolute Kasindula; and again he destroyed
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