We Reached This In One Stretch, And Put Up In Our Old Quarters, Where The Women Of Mlondo Provided Pombe, Plantains, And Potatoes, As Before, With Occasional Fish, And We Lived Very Happily Till The 10th, Shooting Buck, Guinea-Fowl, And Florikan, When, Bombay And Kasoro Arriving, My Work Began Again.

These two worthies reached the palace, after crossing twelve considerable streams, of which one was the Luajerri, rising in the lake.

The evening of the next day after leaving me at Kira, they obtained an interview with the king immediately; for the thought flashed across his mind that Bombay had come to report our death, the Waganda having been too much for the party. He was speedily undeceived by the announcement that nothing was the matter, excepting the inability to procure boats, because the officers at Urondogani denied all authority but the Sakibobo's, and no one would show Bana anything, however trifling, without an express order for it.

Irate at this announcement, the king ordered the Sakibobo, who happened to be present, to be seized and bound at once, and said warmly, "Pray, who is the king, that the Sakibobo's orders should be preferred to mine?" and then turning to the Sakibobo himself, asked what he would pay to be released? The Sakibobo, alive to his danger, replied at once, and without the slightest hesitation, Eighty cows, eighty goats, eighty slaves, eighty mbugu, eighty butter, eighty coffee, eighty tobacco, eighty jowari, and eighty of all the produce of Uganda.

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