It is as the result of these expeditions that one-half Usogo and
the remaining half of Uddu have been annexed to Uganda.
Chapter X
Karague and Uganda
Escape from Protectors - Cross the Kitangule, the First Affluent
of the Nile - Enter Uddu - Uganda - A Rich Country - Driving away the
Devil - A Conflict in the Camp - A Pretending Prince - Three Pages
with a Diplomatic Message from the King of Uganda - Crime in
Uganda.
Crossing back over the Weranhanje spur, I put up with the Arabs
at Kufro. Here, for the first time in this part of the world, I
found good English peas growing. Next day (11th), crossing over
a succession of forks, supporters to the main spur, we encamped
at Luandalo. Here we were overtaken by Rozaro, who had remained
behind, as I now found, to collect a large number of Wanyambo,
whom he called his children, to share with him the gratuitous
living these creatures always look out for on a march of this
nature.
After working round the end of the great spur whilst following
down the crest of a fork, we found Karague separated by a deep
valley from the hilly country of Uhaiya, famous for its ivory and
coffee productions. On entering the rich plantain gardens of
Kisaho, I was informed we must halt there a day for Maula to join
us, as he had been detained by Rumanika, who, wishing to give him
a present, had summoned Rozaro's sister to his palace for that
purpose. She was married to another, and had two children by
him, but that did not signify, as it was found in time her
husband had committed a fault, on account of which it was thought
necessary to confiscate all his property.
At this place all the people were in a constant state of
inebriety, drinking pombe all day and all night. I shot a
montana antelope, and sent its head and skin back to Grant,
accompanied with my daily report to Rumanika.
Maula having joined me, we marched down to near the end of the
fork overlooking the plain of Kitangule - the Waganada drums
beating, and whistles playing all the way we went along.
We next descended from the Mountains of the Moon, and spanned a
long alluvial plain to the settlement of the so-long-heard-of
Kitangule, where Rumanika keeps his thousands and thousands of
cows. In former days the dense green forests peculiar to the
tropics, which grow in swampy places about this plain, were said
to have been stocked by vast herds of elephants; but, since the
ivory trade had increased, these animals had all been driven off
to the hills of Kisiwa and Uhaiya, or into Uddu beyond the river,
and all the way down to the N'yanza.
