I Wished To Push Past Him, As I Might Be Subjected To
Such Calls Every Day; But Ungurue, In The
Most piggish manner -
for he was related to Ruhe - insisted that neither himself nor
any of his children would advance
One step farther with me unless
I complied with their wish, which was a simple conformity with
the laws of their country, and therefore absolute. At length
giving in, I entered Ruhe's boma, the poles of which were decked
with the skulls of his enemies stuck upon them. Instead,
however, of seeing him myself, as he feared my evil eye, I
conducted the arrangements for the hongo through Baraka, in the
same way as I did at M'yonga's, directing that it should be
limited to the small sum of one barsati and four yards kiniki.
The drum was beaten, as the public intimation of the payment of
the hongo, and consequently of our release, and we went on to
Mihambo, on the west border of the eastern division of Uzinza,
which is called Ukhanga. It overlooks the small district of
Sorombo, belonging to the great western division, known as Usui,
and is presided over by a Sorombo chief, named Makaka, whose
extortions had been so notorious that no Arabs now ever went near
him. I did not wish to do so either, though his palace lay in
the direct route. It was therefore agreed we should skirt round
by the east of this district, and I even promised the Pig I would
give him ten necklaces a-day in addition to his wages, if he
would avoid all the chiefs, and march steadily ten miles every
day.
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