For Want Of Better
Amusement, I Made A Page Of Lugoi, A Sharp Little Lad, Son Of The
Late Beluch, But Adopted By Uledi, And Treated Him As A Son,
Which He Declared He Wished To Be, For He Liked Me Better Than
Uledi As A Father.
He said he disliked Uganda, where people's
lives are taken like those of fowls; and wished to live at the
coast, the only place he ever heard of, where all the Wanguana
come from - great swells in Lugoi's estimation.
Now, with Lugoi
dressed in a new white pillow-case, with holes trimmed with black
tape for his head and arms to go through, a dagger tied with red
bindera round his waist, and a square of red blanket rolled on
his shoulder as a napkin, for my gun to rest on, or in place of a
goat-skin run when he wished to sit down, I walked off to inquire
how the Kamraviona was, and took my pictures with me.
Lugoi's dress, however, absorbed all their thoughts, and he was
made to take it off and put it on again as often as any fresh
visitor came to call. Hardly a word was said about anything
else; even the pictures, which generally are in such demand,
attracted but little notice. I asked the Kamraviona to allow me
to draw his pet dog; when the king's sister Miengo came in and
sat down, laughing and joking with me immoderately.
At first there was a demur about my drawing the dog - whether from
fear of bewitching the animal or not, I cannot say; but instead
of producing the pet - a beautifully-formed cream-coloured dog - a
common black one was brought in, which I tied in front of Miengo,
and then drew both woman and dog together.
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