The Poor Wahuma Women, As Soon As Lumeresi
Arrived, Were Put To Death By Their Husbands, Because, By
Becoming Slaves, They Had Broken The Laws Of Their Race.
22d to 24th.
- At last I began to recover. All this exciting
news, with the prospect of soon seeing Grant, did me a world of
good, - so much so, that I began shooting small birds for
specimens - watching the blacksmiths as they made tools, spears,
ad bracelets - and doctoring some of the Wahuma women who came to
be treated for ophthalmia, in return for which they gave me milk.
The milk, however, I could not boil excepting in secrecy, else
they would have stopped their donations on the plea that this
process would be an incantation or bewitchment, from which their
cattle would fall sick and dry up. I now succeeded in getting
Lumeresi to send his Wanyapara to go and threaten M'yonga, that
if he did not release Grant at once, we would combine to force
him to do so. They, however, left too late, for the hongo had
been settled, as I was informed by a letter from Grant next day,
brought to my by Bombay, who had just returned from Kaze after
six weeks' absence. He brought with him old Nasib and another
man, and told me both Bui and Nasib had hidden themselves in a
Boma close to Lumeresi's the day when my hongo was settled; but
they bolted the instant the drums beat, and my men fired guns to
celebrate the event, supposing that the noise was occasioned by
our fighting with Lumeresi.
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