We Could
Not Have Entered Unyoro At All Excepting Through Uganda, And We
Could Not Have Put Foot In Uganda
Without visiting its king."
Without deigning to answer, Kamrasi, in the metaphorical language
of a black man, said, "It would
Be unbecoming of me to keep
secrets from you, and therefore I will tell you at once; I am
sadly afflicted with a disorder which you alone can cure." "What
is it, your majesty? I can see nothing in your face; it may
perhaps require a private inspection." "My heart," he said, "is
troubled, because you will not give me your magic horn - the
thing, I mean, in your pocket, which you pulled out one day when
Budja and Vittagura were discussing the way; and you no sooner
looked at it than you said, 'That is the way to the palace.'"
So! the sly fellow has been angling for the chronometer all this
time, and I can get nothing out of him until he has got it - the
road to the lake, the road to Gani, everything seemed risked on
his getting my watch - a chronometer worth œ50, which would be
spoilt in his hands in one day. To undeceive him, and tell him
it was the compass which I looked at and not the watch, I knew
would only end with my losing that instrument as well; so I told
him it was not my guide, but a time-keeper, made for the purpose
of knowing what time to eat my dinner by.
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