In The Meanwhile, We Were Told That Bombay Had Been Seen On His
Way Returning From Gani; And The Waganda
Had all run away
frightened, because they were told the Kidi and Chopi visitors,
who had been calling on Kamrasi
Lately, were merely the nucleus
of an army forming to drive them away, and to subdue Uganda.
Mtesa was undergoing the coronation formalities, and for this
reason had sent the deserters to Kari's hill, giving them cows
and a garden to live on, as no visitors can remain near the court
while the solemnities of the coronation were going on. The
thirty-odd brothers will be burnt to death, saving two or three,
of which one will be sent into this country - as was the case with
one of the late king Sunna's brothers, who is still in Unyoro -
and the others will remain in the court with Mtesa as playfellows
until the king dies, when, like Sunna's two brothers still living
in Uganda, one at N'yama Goma and one at Ngambezi, they will be
pensioned off. After the coronation is concluded, it is expected
Mtesa will go into Kittari, on the west of Uganda, to fight
first, and then, turning east, will fight with the Wasoga; but we
think if he fights anywhere, it will be with Kamrasi.
25th and 26th. - I sent Frij to the palace to inquire after
Bombay, and got the usual reply: "Why is Bana in such a hurry?
He is always for doing things quickly.
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