The King Listened Attentively, Making, Let Us Suppose, Very
Shrewd Remarks Concerning Them; When To The Worthy He Awarded
Pombe, Helped With Gourd-Cups From Large Earthen Jars, Which Has
N'yanzigged For Vehemently; And To The Unworthy Execution.
When
the fatal sentence was pronounced, a terrible bustle ensued, the
convict wrestling and defying, whilst the other men seized,
pulled and tore the struggling wretch from the crowd, bound him
hands and head together, and led or rather tumbled him away.
After a while, and when all business was over, the king begged me
to follow him into the palace. He asked again for stimulants - a
matter ever uppermost in his mind - and would not be convinced
that such things can do him no possible good, but would in the
end be deleterious. Grant's letter was then read to him before
his women, and I asked for the dismissal of all the Wanyambo, for
they had not only destroyed my peace and home, but were always
getting me into disrepute by plundering the Waganda in the
highways. No answer was given to this; and on walking home, I
found one of the king's women at my hut, imploring protection
against the Wanyambo, who had robbed and bruised her so often,
she could not stand such abuse any longer.
4th. - I sent Maula, early in the morning, with the plundered
woman, and desired him to request that the Wanyambo might be
dismissed. He returned, saying he delivered my message, but no
reply was given.
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