The Meeting Then
Broke Up In The Same Chilling Manner As It Began, And We Returned
As We Came, But No Sooner Reached Home Than Four Pots Of Pombe
Were Sent Us, With A Hope That We Had Arrived All Safely.
The
present gave great satisfaction.
The Wanguana accused Frij of
having "unclean hands," because the beef had not lasted so long
as it should do - it being a notable fact in Mussulman creed, that
unless the man's hands are pure who cuts the throat of an animal,
its flesh will not last fresh half the ordinary time.
19th. - As the presents given yesterday occupied the king's mind
too much for other business, I now sent to offer him one-third of
the guns left in Uganda, provided he would send some messengers
with one of my men to ask Mtesa for them, and also the same
proportion of the sixty loads of property left in charge of
Rumanika at Karague, if he would send the requisite number of
porters for its removal. But of all things, I said, I most
wished to send a letter to Petherick at Gani, to apprise him of
our whereabouts, for he must have been four years waiting our
arrival there, and by the same opportunity I would get a watch
for the king. He sent us to-day two pots of pombe, one sack of
salt, and what might be called a screw of butter, with an
assurance that the half of everything that came to his house -
and everything was brought from great distances in boats - he
would give me; but for the present the only thing he was in need
of was some medicine or stimulants.
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