I Knew They Were Telling Lies, And
Would Not Enter The Village, But Shot The Cows When They Arrived,
For The Villagers To Eat, To Show Them I Cared For Nothing But
Making Headway, And Remained Out In The Open All Night.
Next
morning, sure enough, before we could get under way, M'yonga sent
his prime minister to say that the
King's sisters and other
members of his family had been crying and tormenting him all
night for having let me off so cheaply - they had got nothing to
cover their nakedness, and I must pay something more. This
provoked fresh squabbles. The drums had beaten and the tax was
settled; I could not pay more. The kirangozi, however, said he
would not move a peg unless I gave something more, else he would
be seized on his way back. His "children' all said the same; and
as I thought Grant would only be worsted if I did not keep
friends with the scoundrel, I gave four yards more merikani, and
then went on my way.
For the first few miles there were villagers, but after that a
long tract of jungle, inhabited chiefly by antelopes and
rhinoceros. It was wilder in appearance than most parts of
Unyamuezi. In this
jungle a tributary nullah to the Gombe, called Nurhungure, is the
boundary-line between the great Country of the Moon and the
kingdom of Uzinza.
Chapter VI
Uzinza
The Politics of Uzinza - The Wahuma - "The Pig's" Trick - First
Taste of Usui Taxation - Pillaged by Mfumbi - Pillaged by Makaka -
Pillaged by Lumeresi - Grant Stripped by M'Yonga - Stripped Again
by Ruhe - Terrors and Defections in the Camp - Driven back to Kaze
with new Tribulations and Impediments.
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