23d. - Three Boats Arrived, Like Those Used On The Murchison Creek, And When I Demanded The Rest, As Well As A Decisive Answer About Going To Kamrasi's, The Acting Mkungu Said He Was Afraid Accidents Might Happen, And He Would Not Take Me.

Nothing would frighten this pig-headed creature into compliance, though I told him I had arranged with the king to make the Nile the channel of communication with England.

I therefore applied to him for guides to conduct me up the river, and ordered Bombay and Kasoro to obtain fresh orders from the king, as all future Wazungu, coming to Uganda to visit or trade, would prefer the passage by the river. I shot another buck in the evening, as the Waganda love their skins, and also a load of guinea-fowl - three, four, and five at a shot - as Kasoro and his boys prefer them to anything.

24th. - The acting officer absconded, but another man came in his place, and offered to take us on the way up the river to-morrow, humbugging Kasoro into the belief that his road to the palace would branch off from the first state, though in reality it was here. The Mkungu's women brought pombe, and spent the day gazing at us, till, in the evening, when I took up my rifle, one ran after Bana to see him shoot, and followed like a man; but the only sport she got was on an ant-hill, where she fixed herself some time, popping into her mouth and devouring the white ants as fast as they emanated from their cells - for, disdaining does, I missed the only pongo buck I got a shot at in my anxiety to show the fair one what she came for.

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