4th. - Entering Warmly Into The Spirit Of This Important
Intelligence, Rumanika Inquired Into Its Truth; And, Finding No
Reason To Doubt It, Said He Would Send Some Men Back With
Kamrasi's Men, If I Could Have Patience Until They Were Ready To
Go.
There would be no danger, as Kamrasi was his brother-in-law,
and would do all that he told him.
I now proposed to send Baraka, who, ashamed to cry off, said he
would go with Rumanika's officers if I allowed him a companion of
his own choosing, who would take care of him if he got sick on
the way, otherwise he should be afraid they would leave him to
die, like a dog, in the jungles. We consoled him by assenting to
the companion he wished, and making Rumanika responsible that no
harm should come to him from any of the risks which his
imagination conjured up. Rumanika then gave him and Uledi, his
selected companion, some sheets of mbugu, in order that they
might disguise themselves as his officers whilst crossing the
territories of the king of Uganda. On inquiring as to the reason
of this, it transpired that, to reach Unyoro, the party would
have to cross a portion of Uddu, which the late king Sunna, on
annexing that country to Uganda, had divided, not in halves, but
by alternate bands running transversely from Nkole to the
Victoria N'yanza.
5th and 6th. - To keep Rumanika up to the mark, I introduced to
him Saidi, one of my men, who was formerly a slave, captured in
Walamo, on the borders of Abyssinia, to show him, by his
similarity to the Wahuma, how it was I had come to the conclusion
that he was of the same race.
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