Having Two Heads In A Country Was A Most Dangerous Thing,
But It Could Not Be Helped For The Present, As His Hands Were Too
Completely Occupied Already.
There were Rohinda, the Watuta, and
M'yonga, whom he must settle with before he could attend to Ruhe;
but when he was free, then Ruhe should know who was the chief.
To bring the matter to a climax, Mrs. Lumeresi then said she
ought to have something, because Ruhe was her son, whilst
Lumeresi was only her second husband and consort, for Ruhe was
born to her by her former husband. She therefore was queen.
Difficulties now commenced again (28th). All the Wanguana
struck, and said they would go no further. I argued - they
argued; they wanted more pay - I would not give more. Bombay, who
appeared the only one of my men anxious to go on with Grant and
myself, advised me to give in, else they would all run away, he
said. I still stuck out, saying that if they did go, they should
be seized on the coast and cast into jail for desertion. I had
sent for fifty more men on the same terms as themselves, and
nothing in the world would make me alter what had been
established at the British Consulate. There all their
engagements were written down in the office-book, and the Consul
was our judge.
29th to 4th. - This shut them up, but at night two of them
deserted; the Wanyamuezi porters also deserted, and I had to find
more.
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