As Budja Forbade It, No
Men Would Follow Me Out Shooting, Saying The Villagers Were Out
Surrounding Our Camp, And
Threatening destruction on any one who
dared show his face; for this was not the highroad to Uganda, and
therefore
No one had a right to turn them out of their houses and
pillage their gardens.
13th. - Budja lost two cows given to his party last night, and
seeing ours securely tied by their legs to trees, asked by what
spells we had secured them; and would not believe our assurance
that the ropes that bound them were all the medicines we knew of.
One of the Queen's sisters, hearing of Kari's murder, came on a
visit to condole with us, bringing a pot of pombe, for which she
received some beads. On being asked how many sisters the queen
had, for we could not help suspecting some imposition, she
replied she was the only one, till assured ten other ladies had
presented themselves as the queen's sisters before, when she
changed her tone, and said, "That is true, I am not the only one;
but if I had told you the truth I might have lost my head." This
was a significant expression of the danger to telling court
secrets.
I suspected that there must be a considerable quantity of game in
this district, as stake-nets and other traps were found in all
the huts, as well as numbers of small antelope hoofs spitted on
pipe-sticks - an ornament which is counted the special badge of
the sportsman in this part of Africa.
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