What I Gave Him Is The Sort Of Creature We
Give All Our Guests." A Msoga Was Sent By The
King to take the
dead adjutant of yesterday out of the nest - for all Wasoga are
expert climbers, which is
Not the case with the Waganda; but the
man was attacked half-way up the tree by a swarm of bees, and
driven down again.
14th. - After all the vexatious haggling for a house, I gained my
object to-day by a judicious piece of bribery which I had
intended to accomplish whenever I could. I now succeeded in
sending - for I could not, under the jealous eyes in Uganda, get
it done earlier - a present of fifteen pints mixed beads, twenty
blue eggs, and five copper bracelets, to the commander-in-chief,
as a mark of friendship. At the same time I hinted that I should
like him to use his influence in obtaining for me a near and
respectable residence, where I hoped he, as well as all the
Waganda nobility, would call upon me; for my life in Uganda was
utterly miserable, being shut up like a hermit by myself every
day. The result was, that a number of huts in a large plantain
garden were at once assigned to me, on the face of a hill,
immediately overlooking and close to the main road. It was
considered the "West End." It had never before been occupied by
any visitors excepting Wahinda ambassadors; and being near, and
in full view of the palace, was pleasant and advantageous, as I
could both hear the constant music, and see the throngs of people
ever wending their way to and from the royal abodes.
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