Everything Was Granted Without The Slightest Hesitation; And Then
The King, Turning To Me, Said, "Well, Bana, So You Really Wish To
Go?" "Yes, For I Have Not Seen My Home For Four Years And
Upwards" - Reckoning Five Months To The Year, Uganda Fashion.
"And you can give no stimulants?" "No." "Then you will send me
some from Gani - brandy if you like; it makes people sleep sound,
and gives them strength." Next we went to the queen to bid her
farewell, but did not see her.
On returning home I found half my men in a state of mutiny. They
had been on their own account to beg for the women and cows which
had been refused, saying, If Bana does not want them we do, for
we have been starved here ever since we came, and when we go for
food get broken heads; we will not serve with Bana any longer;
but as he goes north, we will return to Karague and Unyanyembe.
Bombay, however, told them they never had fed so well in all
their lives as they had in Uganda, counting from fifty to sixty
cows killed, and pombe and plantains every day, whenever they
took the trouble to forage; and for their broken heads they
invariably received a compensation in women; so that Bana had
reason to regret every day spent in asking for food for them at
the palace - a favour which none but his men received, but which
they had not, as they might have done, turned to good effect by
changing the system of plundering for food in Uganda.
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