take men and eat up Pokino’s land and name
for old Pokino has forgotten me.”
4< Twiyanzi, yan z i!” he cried and moaned,
Twiyanzi, yanzi, yanzi!” each time more emphatic,
and rubbing his cheeks in the dust; and
then, springing to his feet, he seized his spear,
and, holding it aloft, as i f in the act o f launching
it, he proclaimed aloud, “ B y the Emperor’s
orders, I g o to eat up Pokino. I will eat him
clean out o f land and name, and. Magassa shall become
Pokino. Emperor, behold me!” and again
he fell to the ground, screaming his thankful
Twiyanzis, and lo y a lly abasing himself in the
dust.
After the levee was over, Magassa, eager to
change his name for Pokino’s, beat his war-
drum, unfolded his banner, and mustered his
fo llow e rs , and, like the fell leopard, pounced
upon purblind Pokino, whom he quickly deprived
o f life, land, and name, and in place o f their
former owner became their master. But with even
old Pokino’s vast estates and large possessions
t e young Pokino was apparently discontented.
hortly afterwards the Emperor commanded
him to “ eat u p ” Namujurilwa, the Achilles o f
Uganda, and it is to young Pokino’s thirst for
p owe r and riches that Majwara, an infant son
o f that great chief, became a slave to Njara o f
Unyanyembe, from whom I purchased his freedom
in 1871, I afterwards sen* him to Livingstone,
to whom young Majwara ministered faithful
service until that great traveller’s death.
With the fall o f Namujurilwa, young Pokino
became Lord of all Uddu, from the Katonga
valley to the Alexandra Nile, a district embracing
over 3000 square miles, with twenty subchiefs
recognizing him as their master, possessing
two great capitals, Namujurilwa’s at Masaka,
and Pokino’s, hundreds o f women-slaves, and
thousands o f youthful slaves o f both sexes, with
cattle also b y the thousand, and chief o f a population
numbering over x 00,000. What a change
this— from the keeper o f the lavatory to the
Lord o f Uddu!
Pokino’s life at his capital o f Uddu, Masaka,
is almost regal. He has “ eaten u p ” the lands
o f two great chiefs, old Pokino and the lionlike
Namujurilwa, and now out o f the eater
cometh forth meat, and out o f the strong cometh
forth sweetness. His sub-regal court is crowded
with applicants and claimants for bounties, and
slaves requiring to be fed, and good offices are
given with a liberal hand, and cattle are slaughtered
b y hundreds until Pokino s open hand and
large heart is published throughout Uganda. B y
this politic liberality he secures the affection o f
the natives o f Uddu, the friendship o f the great
chiefs at the court, and the approbation o f the
Emperor.
Is Pokino satisfied? Not y e t, for there remains