From This, The Country Being All Hill And Dale, With Miry Rush-
Drains In The Bottoms, I Walked, Carrying My Shoes And Stockings
In My Hands, Nearly All The Way.
Rozaro's "children" became more
and more troublesome, stealing everything they could lay their
hands upon out of the village huts we passed on the way.
On
arrival at Sangua, I found many of them had been seized by some
men who, bolder than the rest, had overtaken them whilst gutting
their huts, and made them prisoners, demanding of me two slaves
and one load of beads for their restitution. I sent my men back
to see what had happened, and ordered them to bring all the men
on to me, that I might see fair play. They, however, took the
law into their own hands, drove off the Waganda villagers by
firing their muskets, and relieved the thieves. A complaint was
then laid against Nyamgundu by the chief officer of the village,
and I was requested to halt. That I would not do, leaving the
matter in the hands of the governor-general, Mr Pokino, whom I
heard we should find at the next station, Masaka.
On arrival there at the government establishment - a large
collection of grass huts, separated one from the other within
large enclosures, which overspread the whole top of a low hill - I
was requested to withdraw and put up in some huts a short
distance off, and wait until his excellency, who was from home,
could come and see me; which the next day he did, coming in state
with a large number of officers, who brought with them a cow,
sundry pots of pombe, enormous sticks of sugar-cane, and a large
bundle of country coffee.
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