They All Said I Must Have The King's
Sanction First, Else People, From Not Knowing My Object, Would
Accuse Me Of Practising Witchcraft, And Would Tell Their King So.
They still all maintained that the river did come out of the
lake, and said, if I liked to ask the king's leave to visit the
spot, then they would go and show it me.
I gave way, thinking it
prudent to do so, but resolved in my mind I would get Grant to
see it in boats on his voyage from Karague. There were not
guinea-fowls to be found here, nor a fowl, in any of the huts, so
I requested Rozaro to hurry off to Mtesa, and ask him to send me
something to eat. He simply laughed at my request, and said I
did not know what I was doing. It would be as much as his life
was worth to go one yard in advance of this until the king's
leave was obtained. I said, rather than be starved to death in
this ignominious manner, I would return to Karague; to which he
replied, laughing, "Whose leave have you got to do that? Do you
suppose you can do as you like in this country?"
Next day (17th), in the evening, N'yamgundu returned full of
smirks and smiles, dropped on his knees at my feet, and, in
company with his "children," set to n'yanzigging, according to
the form of that state ceremonial already described.[FN#17] In
his excitement he was hardly able to say all he had to
communicate.
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