27th. - I Sent Frij To The Palace To Ask Once More For Leave To
Visit The Luta Nzige River-Lake To The Westward, And To Request
Kamrasi Would Send Men To Fetch My Property From Karague.
He
sent four loads of small fish and one pot of pombe, to say he
would see me on the morrow, when every arrangement would be made.
Late at night orders came announcing that I might write my
despatches, as sixty men were ready to start for Karague.
28th. - I sent one of my men with despatches to Kamrasi, who
detained him half the day, and then ordered him to call to-
morrow. This being the fifteenth or twentieth time Kamrasi had
disappointed me, after promising an interview, that we might have
a proper understanding about everything, and when no begging on
his party was to interrupt our conversation, I sent him a
threatening message, to see what effect that would have. The
purport of it was, that I was afraid to send men to Karague, now
I had seen his disposition to make prisoners of all who visit
him. Here had I been kept six weeks waiting for Bombay's return
from Gani, where I only permitted him to go because I was told
the journey to and fro would only occupy from eight to ten days
at most. Then Rumanika's men, who came here with Baraka, though
daily crying to get away, were still imprisoned here, without any
hope before them. If I sent Msalima, he would be kept ten years
on the road.
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