At Every
Place That You Stop For The Day, The Officer In Charge Will Bring
You Plantains, Otherwise Your Men Can Help Themselves In The
Gardens, For Such Are The Laws Of The Land When A King's Guest
Travels In It.
Any one found selling anything to either yourself
or your men would be punished." Accordingly, I stopped the daily
issue of beads; but no sooner had I done so, than all my men
declared they could not eat plantains.
It was all very well,
they said, for the Waganda to do so, because they were used to
it, but it did not satisfy their hunger.
Maula, all smirks and smiles, on seeing me order the things out
for the march, begged I would have patience, and wait till the
messenger returned from the king; it would not take more than ten
days at the most. Much annoyed at this nonsense, I ordered my
tent to be pitched. I refused all Maula's plantains, and gave my
men beads to buy grain with; and, finding it necessary to get up
some indignation, said I would not stand being chained like a
dog; if he would not go on ahead, I should go without him. Maula
then said he would go to a friend's and come back again. I said,
if he did not, I should go off; and so the conversation ended.
26th. - Drumming, singing, screaming, yelling, and dancing had
been going on these last two days and two nights to drive the
Phepo or devil out of a village.
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