warmly into the spirit of this important intelligence,
Rumanika inquired into its truth; and, finding no reason to doubt it,
said he would send some men back with Kamrasi's men, if I could have
patience until they were ready to go. There would be no danger, as
Kamrasi was his brother-in-law, and would do all that he told him.

I now proposed to send Baraka, who, ashamed to cry off, said he would
go with Rumanika's officers if I allowed him a companion of his
own choosing, who would take care of him if he got sick on the way,
otherwise he should be afraid they would leave him to die, like a dog,
in the jungles. We consoled him by assenting to the companion he wished,
and making Rumanika responsible that no harm should come to him from any
of the risks which his imagination conjured up. Rumanika then gave him
and Uledi, his selected companion, some sheets of mbugu, in order that
they might disguise themselves as his officers whilst crossing the
territories of the king of Uganda. On inquiring as to the reason of
this, it transpired that, to reach Unyoro, the party would have to cross
a portion of Uddu, which the late king Sunna, on annexing that country
to Uganda, had divided, not in halves, but by alternate bands running
transversely from Nkole to the Victoria N'yanza.

5th and 6th.--To keep Rumanika up to the mark, I introduced to him
Saidi, one of my men, who was formerly a slave, captured in Walamo, on
the borders of Abyssinia, to show him, by his similarity to the Wahuma,
how it was I had come to the conclusion that he was of the same race.
Saidi told him his tribe kept cattle with the same stupendous horns as
those of the Wahuma; and also that, in the same manner, they all mixed
blood and milk for their dinners, which, to his mind, confirmed my
statement. At night, as there was a partial eclipse of the moon, all the
Wanguana marched up and down from Rumanika's to Nnanaji's huts, singing
and beating our tin cooking-pots to frighten off the spirit of the sun
from consuming entirely the chief object of reverence, the moon.

7th.--Our spirits were now further raised by the arrival of a
semi-Hindu-Suahili, named Juma, who had just returned from a visit to
the king of Uganda, bringing back with him a large present of ivory and
slaves; for he said he had heard from the king of our intention to visit
him, and that he had despatched officers to call us immediately. This
intelligence delighted Rumanika as much as it did us,