With A Following Reduced To Twenty Men, Armed With Fourteen
Carbines, I Now Wished To Start For Kamrasi's, But Had Not Even
Sufficient Force To Lift The Loads.
A little while elapsed, and
a party of fifty Wanyoro rushed wildly into camp, with their
spears uplifted, and
Looked for the Waganda, but found them gone.
The athletic Kajunju, it transpired, had returned to Kamrasi's,
told him our story, and received orders to snatch us away from
the Waganda by force, for the great Mkamma, or king, was most
anxious to see his white visitors; such men had never entered
Unyoro before, and neither his father nor his father's fathers
had ever been treated with such a visitation; therefore he had
sent on these fifty men to fall by surprise on the Waganda, and
secure us. But again, in a little while, about 10 a.m., Kajunju,
in the same wild manner, at the head of 150 warriors, with the
soldier's badge - a piece of mbugu or plantain-leaf tied round
their heads, and a leather sheath on their spear-heads, tufted
with cow's-tail - rushed in exultingly, having found, to their
delight, that there was no one left to fight with, and that they
had gained an easy victory. They were certainly a wild set of
ragamuffins - as different as possible from the smart, well-
dressed, quick-of-speech Waganda as could be, and anything but
prepossessing to our eyes. However, they had done their work,
and I offered them a cow, wishing to have it shot before them;
but the chief men, probably wishing the whole animal to
themselves, took it alive, saying the men were all the king's
servants, and therefore could not touch a morsel.
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