[The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Discovery of the Source of the Nile CHAPTER X 20/34
On arrival at Sangua, I found many of them had been seized by some men who, bolder than the rest, had overtaken them whilst gutting their huts, and made them prisoners, demanding of me two slaves and one load of beads for their restitution. I sent my men back to see what had happened, and ordered them to bring all the men on to me, that I might see fair play.
They, however, took the law into their own hands, drove off the Waganda villagers by firing their muskets, and relieved the thieves.
A complaint was then laid against Nyamgundu by the chief officer of the village, and I was requested to halt.
That I would not do, leaving the matter in the hands of the governor-general, Mr Pokino, whom I heard we should find at the next station, Masaka. On arrival there at the government establishment--a large collection of grass huts, separated one from the other within large enclosures, which overspread the whole top of a low hill--I was requested to withdraw and put up in some huts a short distance off, and wait until his excellency, who was from home, could come and see me; which the next day he did, coming in state with a large number of officers, who brought with them a cow, sundry pots of pombe, enormous sticks of sugar-cane, and a large bundle of country coffee.
This grows in great profusion all over this land in large bushy trees, the berries sticking on the branches like clusters of hollyberries. I was then introduced, and told that his excellency was the appointed governor of all the land lying between the Katonga and the Kitangule rivers.
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