We Jumped Off Our Seats To Show Him The Way, Hoping Our
Persecutions Were Over; But Still He Sat, And
Sat, until at
length, finding we did not take the hint to give him a parting
present, he said, "I
Never visited any big man's house without
taking home some trifle to show my wife and children." "Indeed,
great king! then you did not come to visit us, but to beg, eh?
You shall have nothing, positively nothing; for we will not have
it said the king did not come to see us, but to beg." Kamrasi's
face changed colour; he angrily said, "Irokh togend" (let us rise
and go), and forthwith walked straight out of the hut. Frij
piped, but no guns fired; and as he asked the reason why he was
told it would be offensive to say we were glad he was going. The
king was evidently not pleased for no pombe came to-day.
Chapter XVIII
Unyoro - Continued
The Ceremonies of the New Moon - Kamrasi's Rule and Discipline -
An Embassy from Uganda, and its Results - The Rebellious Brothers-
- An African Sorcerer and his Incantations - The Kamraviona of
Unyoro - Burial Customs - Ethiopian Legends - Complicated Diplomacy
for our Detention - Proposal to send Princes to England - We get
away.
26th. - We found that the palace was shut up in consequence of the
new moon, seen for the first time last evening; and incessant
drumming was the order of the day. Still, private interviews
might be granted, and I sent to inquire after the state of the
king's health.
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