The Kamraviona Was Sharply
Rebuked By The King For Allowing K'yengo To Visit Him Before
Permission Was Given, And Thus Defrauding The Royal Exchequer Of
Many Pretty Things, Which Were Brought For Majesty Alone.
At
night the rascally boys returned again to plunder, but Kahala,
more wakeful than myself, heard them trying to untie the door-
handle, and frightened them away in endeavouring to awaken me.
14th and 15th. - Grant, doing duty for me, tried a day's penance
at the palace, but though he sat all day in the ante-chamber, and
musicians were ordered into the presence, nobody called for him.
K'yengo was sent with all his men on a Wakungu-seizing
expedition, - a good job for him, as it was his perquisite to
receive the major part of the plunder himself.
16th. - I sent Kahala out of the house, giving her finally over to
Bombay as a wife, because she preferred playing with dirty little
children to behaving like a young lady, and had caught the itch.
This was much against her wish, and the child vowed she would not
leave me until force compelled her; but I had really no other way
of dealing with the remnant of the awkward burden which the
queen's generosity had thrown on me. K'yengo went to the palace
with fifty prisoners; but as the king had taken his women to the
small pond, where he has recently placed a tub canoe for purposes
of amusement, they did no business.
17th. - I took a first convalescent walk.
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