officers arrived, and advised me to wait until
the evening. At all events, if there were any further impediments,
he himself would go over there with a force and release Grant. In the
evening another messenger arrived from Grant, giving a list of his
losses and expenses at M'yonga's. They amounted to an equivalent of
eight loads, and were as follows:--100 yards cloth, and 4600 necklaces
of beads (these had been set aside as the wages paid to the porters, but
being in my custody, I had to make them good); 300 necklaces of beads
stolen from the loads; one brass wire stolen; one sword-bayonet stolen;
Grant's looking-glass stolen; one saw stolen; one box ammunition stolen.
Then paid in hongo, 160 yards cloth; 150 necklaces; one scarlet blanket,
double; one case ammunition; ten brass wires. Lastly, there was one
donkey beaten to death by the savages. This was the worst of all; for
this poor brute carried me on the former journey to the southern end of
the N'yanza, and in consequence was a great pet.

As nothing further transpired, and I was all in the dark (26th), I wrote
to Grant telling him of my interviews with Lumeresi, and requesting
him to pay nothing; but it was too late, for Grant, to my inexpressible
delight, was the next person I saw; he walked into camp, and then he was
a good laugh over all our misfortunes. Poor Grant, he had indeed had
a most troublesome time of it. The scoundrel Ruhe, who only laughed at
Lumeresi's orders, had stopped his getting supplies of food for himself
and his men; told him it was lucky that he came direct to the palace,
for full preparations had been made for stopping him had he attempted to
avoid it; would not listen to any reference being made to avoid myself;
badgered and bullied over every article that he extracted; and, finally,
when he found compliance with his extortionate requests was not readily
granted, he beat the wardrums to frighten the porters, and ordered the
caravan out of his palace, to where he said they would find his men
ready to fight it out with them. It happened that Grant had just given
Ruhe a gun when my note arrived, on which they made an agreement, that
it was to be restored, provided that, after the full knowledge of all
these transactions had reached us, it was both Lumeresi's and my desire
that it should be so.

I called Lumeresi (27th), and begged he would show whether he was the
chief or not, by requiring Ruhe to disgorge the property he had taken
from me