I Had Now Nothing Whatever To Think Of But Making
Dodges For Lying Easy, And For Relieving My Pains, Or
Else for
cooking strong broths to give me strength, for my legs were
reduced to the appearance of pipe-sticks,
Until the 15th, when
Baraka, in the same doleful manner as in Sorombo, came to me and
said he had something to communicate, which was so terrible, if I
heard it I should give up the march. Lumeresi was his authority,
but he would not tell it until Grant arrive. I said to him, "Let
us wait till Grant arrives; we shall then have some one with us
who won't shrink from whispers" - meaning Bombay; and so I let the
matter drop for the time being. But when Grant came, we had it
out of him, and found this terrible mystery all hung on
Lumeresi's prognostications that we never should get through Usui
with so little cloth.
16th to 19th. - At night, I had such a terrible air-catching fit,
and made such a noise whilst trying to fill my lungs, that it
alarmed all the camp, so much so that my men rushed into my tent
to see if I was dying. Lumeresi, in the morning, then went on a
visiting excursion into the district, but no sooner left than the
chief of Isamiro, whose place lies close to the N'yanza, came
here to visit him (17th); but after waiting a day to make friends
with me, he departed (18th), as I heard afterwards, to tell his
great Mhuma chief, Rohinda, the ruler of Ukhanga, to which
district this state of Bogue belongs, what sort of presents I had
given to Lumeresi.
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