To Carry Out The Incantation More Effectually, However, All My
Men Were Sent For To Sit In The Open Before The Hut, When The Old
Doctor Rose, Shaking The Horn And Tinkling The Bell Close To His
Ear.
He then, confronting one of the men, dashed the horn forward
as if intending to strike him on the face, then smelt the head,
then dashed at another, and so on, till he became satisfied that
my men were not the thieves.
He then walked into Grant's hut,
inspected that, and finally went to the place where the bottle
had been kept. There he walked about the grass with his arm up,
and jingling the bell to his ear, first on one side, then on the
other, till the track of a hyena gave him the clue, and in two or
three more steps he found it. A hyena had carried it into the
grass and dropped it. Bravo, for the infallible horn! and well
done the king for his honesty in sending it! So I gave the king
the bottle and gauge, which delighted him amazingly; and the old
doctor who begged for pombe, got a goat for his trouble. My men
now, recollecting the powder robbery at Uganda, said king Mtesa
would not send his horn when I asked for it, because he was the
culprit himself.
6th. - Kidgwiga told us to-day that king Kamrasi's sisters are not
allowed to wed; they live and die virgins in his palace.
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