As Kamrasi Was Anxious I Should Take Two Of
His Children To England To Be Instructed, I Agreed To Do So, But
Said I Thought It Would Be Better If He Invited Missionaries To
Come Here And Educate All His Family.
His cattle were much
troubled with sickness, dying in great numbers - could I cure
them?
As he again began to persecute us with begging, wanting
knives and forks, etc., I advised his using ivory as money, and
purchasing what he wanted from Gani. This brought out the
interesting fact, the truth of which we had never reached before,
that when Petherick's servant brought him one necklace of beads,
and asked after us, he gave in return fourteen ivories, thirteen
women, and seven mbugu cloths. One of his men accompanied the
visitors back to the boats, and saw Petherick, who took the ivory
and rejected the women.
10th. - At 2 p.m. we were called by Kamrasi to visit him at the
Kafu palace again, and requested to bring a lot of medicines tied
up in various coloured cloths, so that he might know what to
select for different ailments. We repaired there as before,
putting the medicines into the sextand-stand box, and found him
lying at full length on the platform of his throne, with a glass-
bead necklace of various colours, and a charm tied on his left
arm. Nobody was allowed to be present at our interview. The
medicines, four varieties, were weighed out into ten doses each,
and their uses and effects explained.
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