There Must Have
Been Some Special Reason Why, In A Court Where Trifling Breaches
Of Etiquette Were Punished With A Cruel Death, So Grave A Crime
Should Have Been So Leniently Dealt With; But I Could Not Get At
The Bottom Of The Affair.
The culprit, a good-looking young
fellow of sixteen or seventeen, who brought in the goat, made his
n'yanzigs, stroked the goat and his own face with his hands,
n'yanzigged again with prostrations, and retired.
After this scene, officers announced the startling fact that two
white men had been seen at Kamrasi's, one with a beard like
myself, the other smooth-faced. I jumped at this news, and said,
"Of course, they are there; do let me send a letter to them." I
believed it to be Petherick and a companion whom I knew he was to
bring with him. The king, however, damped my ardour by saying
the information was not perfect, and we must wait until certain
Wakungu, whom he sent to search in Unyoro, returned.
16th. - The regions about the palace were all in a state of
commotion to-day, men and women running for their lives in all
directions, followed by Wakungu and their retainers. The cause
of all this commotion was a royal order to seize sundry
refractory Wakungu, with their property, wives, concubines - if
such a distinction can be made in this country - and families all
together. At the palace Mtesa had a musical party, playing the
flute occasionally himself.
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