It Was Not In The Palace, But Outside, Without
A Tree Near It; Anything But A Nice-Looking Residence." I
Then
sent Bombay to work at the hongo business; but, after haggling
till night with Kariwami, he was told he
Must bring fourteen
brass wires, two cloths, and five mukhnai of kanyera, or white
porcelain beads - which, reduced, amounted to three hundred
necklaces; else he said I might stop there for a month.
At last I settled this confounded hongo, by paying seven
additional wires in lieu of the cloth; and, delighted at the
termination of this tedious affair, I ordered a march. Like
magic, however, Vikora turned up, and said we must wait until he
was settled with. His rank was the same as the others, and one
bead less than I had given them he would not take. I fought all
the day out, but the next morning, as he deputed his officers to
take nine wires, these were given, and then we went on with the
journey.
Tripping along over the hill, we descended to a deep miry
watercourse, full of bulrushes, then over another hill, from the
heights of which we saw Suwarora's palace, lying down in the
Uthungu valley, behind which again rose another hill of
sandstone, faced on the top with a dyke of white quartz. The
scene was very striking, for the palace enclosures, of great
extent, were well laid out to give effect. Three circles of milk
bush, one within the other, formed the boma, or ring-fence.
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