No Letter Like That Referred To Had Ever Been
Received, So That Frij's Interpretation About Grant's Letter-
Dream Was Right; And If We Wished To Go To Gani, The King Would
Send Men Travelling By Night, For His Brothers At War With Him
Lay Upon The Road.
As to the Uganda question, and my desiring
him to make friends with Mtesa, in hopes that the influence of
trade would prevent any plundering in future, he merely tossed
his head.
He often said he did not know what to think about his
guests, now he had got them; to which Bombay, in rather
successful imitation of what he had heard me say on like
occasions, replied, "If you do not like them after you have seen
them, cut their heads off, for they are all in your hands."
11th. - With great apparent politeness Kamrasi sent in the morning
to inquire how we had slept. He had "heard our cry" - an
expression of regal condescension - and begged we would not be
alarmed, for next morning he would see us, and after the meeting
change our residence, when, should we not approve of wading to
his palace, he would bridge all the swamps leading up to it; but
for the present he wanted two rounds of ball-cartridge - one to
fire before his women, and the other before his officers and a
large number of Kidi men who were there on a visit. To please
this childish king, Bombay was sent with two other of my men, and
no sooner arrived than a cow was placed before them to be shot.
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