Kamrasi Had Heard Of My Shooting With Mtesa,
As Also Of The Attempt Made By Mabruki And Uledi To Reach Gani
Via Usoga.
He had received my present of beads from Baraka, and,
in addition, took Uledi's sword, saying, "If you do
Not wish to
part with it, you must remain a prisoner in my country all your
life, for you have not paid your footing." Mabruki then told me
he was kept waiting at a village, one hour's walk from Kamrasi's
palace, five days before they were allowed to approach his
majesty; but when they were seen, and the presents exchanged,
they were ordered to pack off the following morning, as Kamrasi
said the Waganda were a set of plundering blackguards.
This information, to say the least of it, was very embarrassing -
a mixture of good and bad. Petherick, I now felt certain, was on
the look-out for us; but his men had reached Kamrasi's, and
returned again before Baraka's arrival. Baraka was not allowed
to go on to him and acquaint him of our proximity, and the
Waganda were so much disliked in Unyoro, that there seemed no
hopes of our ever being able to communicate by letter. To add to
my embarrassments, Grant had not been able to survey the lake
from Kitangule, nor had Usoga and the eastern side of the lake
been seen.
15th. - I was still laid up with the cold fit of the 10th, which
turned into a low kind of fever.
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