He Hoped Now As We Had Cows To
Eat, There Would Be No Necessity For Wandering For Food, But All
Would Keep Together "In One Garden." At Present No Notice Would
Be Taken Of The Murderers, As All The Culprits Would Have Fled
Far Away In Their Fright To Escape Chastisement.
But when a
little time had elapsed, and all would appear to have been
forgotten, officers would be sent
And the miscreants apprehended,
for it was impossible to suppose anybody could be ignorant of the
white men being the guests of the king, considering they had
lived at the palace for so long. The king took this opportunity
again to remind me that he wanted a heavy solid double gun, such
as would last him all his life; and intimated that in a few days
the arms and robes of honour were to be sent.
16th. - Most of the cows for ourselves and the guides - for the
king gave them also a present, ten each - were driven into camp.
We also got 50 lb. of butter, the remainder to be picked up on
the way. I strolled with the gun, and shot two zebras, to be sent
to the king, as, by the constitution of Uganda, he alone can keep
their royal skins.
17th. - We had to halt again, as the guides had lost most of their
cows, so I strolled with my rifle and shot a ndjezza doe, the
first I had ever seen. It is a brown animal, a little smaller
than leucotis, and frequents much the same kind of ground.
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