Further, Kaddu And Two Other
Wakungu Received Orders To Go To Usui With Two Tusks Of Ivory To
Purchase Gunpowder, Caps, And Flints, Failing Which They Would
Proceed To Unyanyembe, And Even To Zanzibar, For The King Must
Not Be Disappointed, And Failure Would Cost Them Their Lives.
Not another word was said, and away the two parties went, with no
more arrangement than a set of
Geese - Maula without a letter, and
Kaddu without any provision for the way, as if all the world
belonged to Mtesa, and he could help himself from any man's
garden that he liked, no matter where he was. In the evening my
men made a humble petition for their discharge, even if I did not
pay them, producing a hundred reasons for wishing to leave me,
but none which would stand a moment's argument: the fact was,
they were afraid of the road to Unyoro, thinking I had not
sufficient ammunition.
6th. - I visited the king, and asked leave for boats to go at
once; but the fleet admiral put a veto on this by making out that
dangerous shallows exist between the Murchison Creek and the Kira
district station, so that the boats of one place never visit the
other; and further, if we went to Kira, we should find
impracticable cataracts to the Urondogani boat-station; our
better plan would therefore be, to deposit our property at the
Urondogani station, and walk by land up the river, if a sight of
the falls at the mouth of the lake was of such material
consequence to us.
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