At Night The Kirangozi Would Harangue The Camp, Cautioning All
Hands To Keep Together On The Line Of March, As The Watuta Were
Constantly Hovering About, And The Men Should Not Squabble And
Fight With Their Master, Else No More White Men Would Come This
Way Again.
On the 11th we were out of Bogue, in the district of
Ugomba, and next march brought us into Ugombe (12th), where we
crossed the Ukongo nullah, draining westwards to the Malagarai
river.
Here some of the porters, attempting to bolt, were
intercepted by my coast-men and had a fight of it, for they fired
arrows, and in return the coast-men cut their bows. The whole
camp, of course, was in a blaze at this; their tribe was
insulted, and they would not stand it, until Bombay put down
their pride with a few strings of beads, as the best means of
restoring peace in the camp.
At this place we were visited by the chief of the district, Pongo
(Bush-boc), who had left his palace to see us and invite us his
way, for he feared we might give him the slip by going west into
Uyofu. He sent us a cow, and said he should like some return; for
Masudi, who had gone ahead, only gave him a trifle, professing to
be our vanguard, and telling him that as soon as we came with the
large caravan we would satisfy him to his heart's content. We
wished for an interview, but he would not see us, as he was
engaged looking into his magic horn, with an endeavour to see
what sort of men we were, as none of our sort had ever come that
way before.
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