He Then Thought Of Adjutant-Shooting With Ball, Left
The Court Sitting, Desired Me To Follow Him, And Leading The Way,
Went Into The Interior Of The Palace, Where Only A Few Select
Officers Were Permitted To Follow Us.
The birds were wild, and
as nothing was done, I instructed him in the way to fire from his
shoulder, placing the gun in position.
He was shy at first, and
all the people laughed at my handling royalty like a schoolboy;
but he soon took to it very good-naturedly, when I gave him my
silk necktie and gold crest-ring, explaining their value, which
he could not comprehend, and telling him we gentlemen prided
ourselves on never wearing brass or copper.
He now begged hard for shot; but I told him again his only chance
of getting any lay in opening the road onwards; it was on this
account, I said, I had come to see him to-day. He answered, "I
am going to send an army to Usoga to force the way from where
your men were turned back." But this, I said, would not do for
me, as I saw his people travelled like geese, not knowing the
direction of Gani, or where they were going to when sent. I
proposed that if he would call all his travelling men of
experience together, I would explain matters to them by a map I
had brought; for I should never be content till I saw Petherick.
The map was then produced.
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