To Compensate For
Damage Done To Himself, As His Daughter By This Means Had Become
Reduced To Half Her Market-Value, Lumeresi Seized All The Cattle
This Man Had Brought With Him.
3d to 10th.
- When two days had elapsed, one of the three missing
Wahuma women was discovered in a village close by. As she said
she had absconded because her husband had ill-treated her, she
was flogged, to teach her better conduct. It was reported they
had been seen in M'yonga's establishment; and I was at the same
time informed that the husbands who were out in search of them
would return, as M'yonga was likely to demand a price for them if
they were claimed, in virtue of their being his rightful property
under the acknowledged law of buni, or findings-keepings.
For the next four days nothing but wars and rumours of wars could
be heard. The Watuta were out in all directions plundering
cattle and burning villages, and the Wahuma of this place had
taken such fright, they made a stealthy march with all their
herds to a neighbouring chief, to whom it happened that one of
Lumeresi's grey-beards was on a visit. They thus caught a
Tartar; for the grey-beard no sooner saw them than he went and
flogged them all back again, rebuking them on the way for their
ingratitude to their chief, who had taken them in when they
sought his shelter, and was now deserted by them on the first
alarm of war.
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