ould open a man's skull, look at his
brains, and close it up again; also if it was true we sailed all round
the world into regions where there was no difference between night and
day, and how, when he ploughed the seas in such enormous vessels as
would carry at once 20,000 men, we could explain to the sailors what
they ought to do; for, although he had heard of these things, no one was
able to explain them to him.

After all the explanations were given, he promised me a boat-hunt after
the nzoe in the morning; but when the time came, as difficulties were
raised, I asked him to allow us to anticipate the arrival of Kachuchu,
and march on to Kitangule. He answered, with his usual courtesy, That he
would be very glad to oblige us in any way that we liked; but he feared
that, as the Waganda were such superstitious people, some difficulties
would arise, and he must decline to comply with our request. "You
must not," he added, "expect ever to find again a reasonable man like
myself." I then gave him a book on "Kafir laws," which he said he
would keep for my sake, with all the rest of the presents, which he
was determined never to give away, though it was usual for him to send
novelties of this sort to Mtesa, king of Uganda, and Kamrasi, king of
Unyoro, as a friendly recognition of their superior positions in the
world of great monarchies.

17th.--Rumanika next introduced me to an old woman who came from the
island of Gasi, situated in the little Luta Nzige. Both her upper and
lower incisors had been extracted, and her upper lip perforated by
a number of small holes, extending in an arch from one corner to the
other. This interesting but ugly old lady narrated the circumstances by
which she had been enslaved, and then sent by Kamrasi as a curiosity to
Rumanika, who had ever since kept her as a servant in his palace. A man
from Ruanda then told us of the Wilyanwantu (men-eaters), who disdained
all food but human flesh; and Rumanika confirmed the statement. Though
I felt very sceptical about it, I could not help thinking it a curious
coincidence that the position they were said to occupy agreed with
Petherick's Nyam Nyams (men-eaters).

Of far more interest were the results of a conversation which I had with
another of Kamrasi's servants, a man of Amara, as it threw some light
upon certain statements made by Mr Leon of the people of Amara being
Christians. He said they bore single holes in the centres both of their
upper and