I Sent Bombay
Off With A Message To Kamrasi Explaining Everything, And Begging
For An Early Interview, As I Had Much Of Importance To
Communicate, And Wished, Of All Things, To See The Letter He Had
From Gani, As It Must Have Come From Our Dear Friends At Home.
Seven goats, flour, and plantains, were now brought to us; and as
Kidgwiga begged for the flour without success, he flew into a fit
of high indignation because these things were given and received
without his having first been consulted.
He was the big man and
appointed go-between, and no one could dispute it. This was
rather startling news to us, for Vittagura said he was commander-
in-chief; Kajunju thought himself biggest, so did Kwibeya, and
even Dr K'yengo's men justified Budja's speech.
5th and 6th. - Still another halt, with all sorts of excuses.
Frij, it appeared, dreamt last night that the king of Uganda came
to fight us for not complying with his orders, and that all my
men ran away except Uledi and himself. This, according to the
interpretation of the coast, would turn out the reverse,
otherwise his head must be wrong, and, according to local
science, should be set right again by actual cautery of the
temples; and as Grant dreamt a letter came from Gani which I
opened and ran away with, he thought it would turn out no letter
at all, and therefore Kamrasi had been humbugging us. We heard
that Bombay had shot a cow before Kamrasi and would not be
allowed to return until he had eaten it.
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