After this he called me aside, and said, "Now, Bana, I wish you would instruct me, as you have often proposed doing, for I wish to learn everything, though I have little opportunity for doing so." Not knowing what was uppermost in his mind, I begged him to put whatever questions he liked, and he should be answered seriatim--hoping to find him inquisitive on foreign matters; but nothing was more foreign to his mind: none of his countrymen ever seemed to think beyond the sphere of Uganda.
The whole conversation turned on medicines, or the cause and effects of diseases.

Cholera, for instance, very much affected the land at certain seasons, creating much mortality, and vanishing again as mysteriously as it came.

What brought this scourge?
and what would cure it?
Supposing a man had a headache, what should he take for it?
or a leg ache, or a stomach-ache, or itch; in fact, going the rounds of every disease he knew, until, exhausting the ordinary complaints, he went into particulars in which he was personally much interested; but I was unfortunately unable to prescribe medicines which produce the physical phenomenon next to his heart.
17th .-- I called upon the king by appointment, and found a large court, where the Wakungu caught yesterday, and sentenced to execution, received their reprieve on paying fines of cattle and young damsels--their daughters.

A variety of charms, amongst which were some bits of stick strung on leather and covered with serpent-skin, were presented and approved of.

Kaggao, a large district officer, considered the second in rank here, received permission for me to call upon him with my medicines.