13th. - The Kamraviona Was Sent To Inquire After Our Health, To
Ask For Medicine For Himself, And To Inquire More Into The Origin
Of His Race.
I, on the other hand, wishing to make myself as
disagreeable as possible, in order that Kamrasi might get
Tired
of us, sent Frij to ask for fresh butter, eggs, tobacco, coffee,
and fowls, every day, saying, I will pay their price when I reach
Gani, for we were suffering from want of proper food. Kamrasi
was surprised at this clamour for food, and inquired what we ate
at home that we were so different from everybody else.
We heard to-day a strange story, involving the tragic fate of
Budja. On coming here, he had been bewitched by Kamrasi's
frontier officer, who put the charm into a pot of pombe. From
the moment Budja drank it he was seized with sickness, and
remained so until he reached the first station in Uganda, when he
died. The facts of the bewitchment had been found out by means
of the perpetrator's wives, who, from the moment the pombe was
drunk, took to precipitate flight, well knowing what effects
would follow, and dreading the chastisement Mtesa would bring
upon their household. We heard, too, that the deserters had
returned to the place they deserted from, with thirty Waganda,
and a present of some cows for me.
14th. - -Kamrasi sent me four parcels of coffee, very neatly
enclosed in rush pith.
15th. - Getting more impatient, and desirous to move on at any
sacrifice, I proposed giving up all claims to my muskets, as well
as the present of cows from Mtesa, if Kamrasi would give us boats
to Gani at once; but the reply was simply, Why be in such a
hurry?
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