tenanced as a friend when the men under him steal from us?

The big boat gave us the slip, floating away and leaving its paddles
behind. To supply its place, we took six small boats, turning my
men into sailors, and going as we liked. The river still continued
beautiful; but after paddling three hours we found it bend considerably,
and narrow to two hundred yards, the average depth being from two
to three fathoms. At the fourth hour, imagining our cattle to be
far behind, we pulled in, and walked up a well-cultivated hill to
Yaragonjo's, the governor of these parts. The guide, however, on first
sighting his thorn-fenced cluster of huts, regarding it apparently with
the awe and deference due to a palace, shrank from advancing, and
merely pointed, till he was forced on, and in the next minute we found
ourselves confronted with the heads of the establishment. The father of
the house, surprised at our unexpected manner of entrance--imagining,
probably, we were the king's sorcerers, in consequence of our hats, sent
to fight "the brothers"--without saying a word, quietly beckoned us
to follow him out of the gate by the same way as we came. Preferring,
however, to have a little talk where we were, we remained.

The eldest son, a fine young man considerably above six feet high, with
large gashes on his body received in war during late skirmishes with the
refractory brothers, now came in, did the honours, and, on hearing
of the importance of his visitors, directed us to some huts a little
distance off, where we could rest for the night, for there was no
accommodation for such a large party in the palace. The red hill we were
now on, with plantain-gardens, fine huts neatly kept, and dense grasses
covering the country, reminded us of our residence in Uganda. The
people seemed of a decidedly sporting order, for they kept
hippopotamus-harpoons, attached to strong ropes with trimmers of pith
wood, in their huts; and, outside, trophies of their toil in the shape
of a pile of heads, consisting of those of buffalo and hippopotami.
The women, anything but pretty, wore their mbugu cut into two flounces,
fastened with a drawing-string round the waist; and, in place of
stockings, they bound strings of small iron beads, kept bright and
shining, carefully up the leg from the ankle to the bottom of the calf.

Kidgwiga with our cattle arrived in the morning. A bundle of cartridges,
stolen from one of the men's pouches, which we knew could only