lings with myself; but, at the instigation of Bombay and
Baraka, who viewed it in its true character, as tending merely to
assist my journey in the best manner he could, without any sacrifice to
dignity, he eventually yielded, and, to prove his earnestness, sent me a
large tusk, with a notice that his ivory was not kept in the palace,
but with his officers, and as soon as they could collect it, so soon I
should get it.

Rumanika, on hearing that it was our custom to celebrate the birth of
our Saviour with a good feast of beef, sent us an ox. I immediately paid
him a visit to offer the compliments of the season, and at the same time
regretted, much to his amusement, that he, as one of the old stock
of Abyssinians, who are the oldest Christians on record, should have
forgotten this rite; but I hoped the time would come when, by making
it known that his tribe had lapsed into a state of heathenism, white
teachers would be induced to set it all to rights again. At this time
some Wahaiya traders (who had been invited at my request by Rumanika)
arrived. Like the Waziwa, they had traded with Kidi, and they not only
confirmed what the Waziwa had said, but added that, when trading in
those distant parts, they heard of Wanguana coming in vessels to trade
to the north of Unyoro; but the natives there were so savage, they only
fought with these foreign traders. A man of Ruanda now informed us that
the cowrie-shells, so plentiful in that country, come there from the
other or western side, but he could not tell whence they were originally
obtained. Rumanika then told me Suwarora had been so frightened by
the Watuta, and their boastful threats to demolish Usui bit by bit,
reserving him only as a tit-bit for the end, that he wanted a plot of
ground in Karague to preserve his property in.

26th, 27th, and 28th.--Some other travellers from the north again
informed us that they had heard of Wanguana who attempted to trade in
Gani and Chopi, but were killed by the natives. I now assured Rumanika
that in two or three years he would have a greater trade with Egypt than
he ever could have with Zanzibar; for when I opened the road, all those
men he heard of would swarm up here to visit him. He, however, only
laughed at my folly in proposing to go to a place of which all I heard
was merely that every stranger who went there was killed. He began to
show a disinclination to allow my going there, and though from the most
friendly intention, this v