Tell My 'brother' To Keep
His Mind At Rest; Bombay Is Now On The Boundary Of Gani Coming
Here, And Will In Due Course Arrive." Both Rumanika's Men And
Those Belonging To Dr K'yengo Asked Kamrasi's Leave To Return To
Their Homes, But Were Refused, Because The Road Was Unsafe.
"Had
they not," it was said, "heard of Budja's telling Mtesa that
K'yengo's children prevented the white men from returning to
Uganda?
And since then Mtesa had killed his frontier officer for
being chicken-hearted, afraid to carry out his orders, and had
appointed another in his stead, giving him strict orders to make
prisoners of all foreigners who might pass that way; and,
further, when some twenty Wanyoro were going to Karague, they
were hunted down by Mtesa's orders, and three of their number
killed; for he was determined to cut off all intercourse between
this country and Karague. They must therefore wait till the road
is safe."
Hearing this, Dr K'yengo's men, who happened to be as well off
here as anywhere, accepted the advice; but Rumanika's men said,
"We are starving; we have been here too long already doing
nothing, and must go, let what will happen to us." Kamrasi said,
"What will be the use of your going empty-handed? I cannot send
cows and slaves to Rumanika when the road is so unsafe; you must
wait a bit." But they still urged as before, and so forced the
king reluctantly to acquiesce, but only on the condition that two
of their head men should remain behind until some more of
Rumanika's men came to fetch them away - in fact, as we had been
accredited to him by Rumanika, he wanted to keep some of that
king's people as a security until we were out of his hands.
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