It Is Considered Very Indecorous In
Uganda To Call Upon Two Persons In One Day, Though Even The King
Or The Queen Should Be One Of Them.
Then, as there was no help
for it - Congow could not detain me when hungry - he showed me a
Little boy, the only child he had, and said, with much fatherly
pride, "Both the king and queen have called on me to see this
fine little fellow"; and we parted to meet again some other day.
Outside his gate I found Mkuenda, who said the queen had sent him
to invite "her son" to bring her some stomach medicine in the
morning, and come to have a chat with her. With Mkuenda I walked
home; but he was so awed by the splendour of my hut, with its few
blankets and bit of chintz, that he would not even sit upon a
cow-skin, but asked if any Waganda dared venture in there. He
was either too dazzled or too timid to answer any questions, and
in a few minutes walked away again.
After this, I had scarcely swallowed by breakfast before I
received a summons from the king to meet him out shooting, with
all the Wanguana armed, and my guns; and going towards the
palace, found him with a large staff, pages and officers as well
as women, in a plantain garden, looking eagerly out for birds,
whilst his band was playing. In addition to his English dress,
he wore a turban, and pretended that the glare of the sun was
distressing his eyes - for, in fact, he wanted me to give him a
wideawake like my own.
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