The Presence
Of People Who Brought Such Results Was Of Course By No Means
Desirable.
This neat message elicited with a declaration of the
necessity of Budja's going to Gani with us, and a
Response from
the commander-in-chief, probably to terrify the Waganda, that
although Gani was only nine days' journey distant from Kamrasi's
palace, the Gani people were such barbarians, they would call a
straight-haired man a magician, and any person who tied his mbugu
in a knot upon his shoulder, or had a full set of teeth as the
Waganda have, would be surely killed by them. Finally, we must
wait two days, to see if Kamrasi would see us or not. Such was
Unyoro diplomacy.
An announcement of a different kind immediately followed. The
king had heard that I gave a cow to Vittagura and Kidgwiga when
they first came to me in Uganda, and wished the Wanyamuezi to
ascertain if this was true. Of course, I said they were my
guests in Uganda, and if they had been wise they would have eaten
their cow on the spot; what was that to Kamrasi? It was a pity
he did not treat us as well who have come into his country at his
own invitation, instead of keeping us starving in this gloomy
wilderness, without a drop of pombe to cheer the day; - why could
not he let us go on? He wanted first to hear if the big Mzungu,
meaning myself, had really come yet.
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