sive prospects of rolling country, o f grassy hills
and grasSy valleys, following one another in
regular series.
A s we all enjoyed unusual good health during
our journey through this country, one could
not help fancying that it was to the far-receding
prospects opening on every side that we
owed much o f our healthfulness. It was certain
that the blood flowed quicker, that the eye
kindled with brighter light, and that we breathed
more freely when we stood on one o f those
high, commanding grassy ridges and somewhat
fondly compared the land to others we had seen
elsewhere, where fever and ague were not so
prevalent.
T o describe Uddu and Bwera in detail would
be a tedious task, for there is much sameness
o f outline in hill and valley, swell and hollow,
ridge and basin, but viewed as a whole from
the summit o f any eminence, there is something
re ally noble and grand in the survey.
I observed that the parts inhabited b y the
Waganda are, as a rule, the ridges and tabular
summits o f the hills, and that the hollows and
basins are left for grazing purposes to the roving
Wahuma shepherds.
On the sixth d ay after our arrival at Ruwewa,
in the district o f Kahwangau, we marched to
Laugurwe, where we met— as couriers had preinformed
us— General Sambuzi with a thousand
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I men. W e camped half a mile off from the
general, occupying an entire village, from the
plantations o f which we were at liberty to help
ourselves to our hearts’ content. Sambuzi s force
occupied the villages north o f us.
In the afternoon I called to p a y my respects
to the general, for common-sense informed me
that the best w a y o f attaining the objects in
view was to p a y the utmost possible attention
to the failings o f this African general, and to
observe all ceremony and politeness towards him.
During the war with Uvuma, while I was a
constant and honoured attendant at the morning
levee o f the Emperor, Sambuzi had occupied
with his force the ground in rear o f our detachment,
and this chief had then courted my friendship
most assiduously. T h is, in fact, was one
of the reasons why I had made choice o f him,
and preferred his name to Mtesa. But when I
now saw him, I found his behaviour to be an
overacted imitation of the Emperor, without the
monarch’s courtliness and kindliness o f manner.
A s I entered the court, which had been constructed
with a view to enhance his d ign ity , if
space can be said to increase dignity, I observed
that the general stood up from amongst his subordinates
and stiffly maintained that position
until I grasped him b y the hand, when he managed
to utter a faint greeting in response to
mine.