Katunzi Then Told Me The Whole Army Had
Returned From Unyoro, With Immense Numbers Of Cows, Women, And
Children, But Not Men, For Those Who Did Not Run Away Were Killed
Fighting.
He offered me a present of a woman, and pressed me to
call on him.
20th. - Still I found that the king would not send his Wakungu for
the Unyoro expedition, so I called on him about it. Fortunately
he asked me to speak a sentence in English, that he might hear
how it sounds; and this gave me an opportunity of saying, if he
had kept his promise by sending Budja to me, I should have
despatched letters to Petherick. This was no sooner interpreted
than he said, if I would send my men to him with letters in the
morning he would forward them on, accompanied with an army. On
my asking if the army was intended to fight, he replied, in
short, "First to feel the way." On hearing this, I strongly
advised him, if he wished the road to be kept permanently open,
to try conciliation with Kamrasi, and send him some trifling
present.
Now were brought in some thirty-odd women for punishment and
execution, which the king, who of late had been trying to learn
Kisuahili, in order that we might be able to converse together,
asked me, in that language, if I would like to have some of these
women; and if so, how many? On my replying "One," he begged me
to have my choice, and a very pretty one was selected.
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