I Lost No Time In Moving All My Property, Turning Out The Original Occupants - In Selecting The Best Hut For Myself, Giving The Rest To My Three Officers - And Ordering My Men To Build Barracks For Themselves, In Street Form, From My Hut To The Main Road.

There was one thing only left to be done; the sanitary orders of Uganda required every man to build himself a house of parliament, such being the neat and cleanly nature of the Waganda - a pattern to all other negro tribes.

15th. - As nobody could obtain an interview with the king yesterday, I went to the palace to-day, and fired three shots - a signal which was at once answered from within by a double discharge of a gun I had just lent him on his returning my rifle. In a little while, as soon as he had time to dress, the king, walking like a lion, sallied forth, leading his white dog, and beckoned me to follow him to the state hut, the court of which was filled with squatting men as usual, well dressed, and keeping perfect order. He planted himself on his throne, and begged me to sit by his side. Then took place the usual scene of a court levee, as described in Chapter X., with the specialty, in this instance, that the son of the chief executioner - one of the highest officers of state - was led off for execution, for some omission or informality in his n'yanzigs, or salutes.

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