I
Was King Of The Wanguana, And Might Choose To Dispense With The
Attendance.
The matter was compromised, however, on the
condition that Budja should march across the border to-morrow,
and wait for the return of these men and for further orders on
the Unyoro side.
The bait took. Budja lost sight of the necessity there was for
his going to Gani to bring back a gun, ammunition, and some
medicine - that is to say, brandy - for his king; and sent his men
off with mine to tell Mtesa all our adventures - our double
repulse, the intention to wait on the Unyoro side for further
orders, and the account of some Waganda having wounded my men. I
added my excuses for Kamrasi, and laid a complaint against
Mtesa's officers for having defrauded us out of ten cows, five
goats, six butter, and sixty mbugu. It was not that we required
these things, but I knew that the king had ordered them to be
given to us, and I thought it right we should show that his
officers, if they professed to obey his orders, had peculated.
After these men had started, some friends of the villager who had
been apprehended on the charge of assailing my men, came and
offered Budja five cows to overlook the charge; and Budja, though
he could not overlook it when I pleaded for the man, asked me to
recall my men. Discovering that the culprit was a queen's man,
and that the affair would cause bad blood at court should the
king order the man's life to be taken, I tried to do so, but
things had gone too far.
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