Despite, Therefore, Of The
Warnings Of Budja, I Strolled Again With My Rifle, And Saw
Pallah, Small Plovers, And Green Antelopes With Straight Horns,
Called Mpeo, The Skin Of Which Makes A Favourite Apron For The
Mabandwa.
14th. - I met to-day a Mhuma cowherd in my strolls with the rifle,
and asked him if he knew where the game lay.
The unmannerly
creature, standing among a thousand of the sleekest cattle,
gruffishly replied, "What can I know of any other animals than
cows?" and went on with his work, as if nothing in the world
could interest him but his cattle-tending. I shot a doe,
leucotis, called here nsunnu, the first one seen upon the
journey.
15th. - In the morning, when our men went for water to the
springs, some Waganda in ambush threw a spear at them, and this
time caught a Tartar, for the "horns," as they called their guns,
were loaded, and two of them received shot-wounds. In the
evening, whilst we were returning from shooting, a party of
Waganda, also lying in the bush, called out to know what we were
about; saying, "Is it not enough that you have turned us out of
our homes and plantations, leaving us to live like animals in the
wilderness?" and when told we were only searching for sport,
would not believe that our motive was any other than hostility to
themselves.
At night one of Budja's men returned from the palace, to say the
king was highly pleased with the measures adopted by his Wakungu,
in prosecution of Kari's affair.
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