I pressed the king again to send men with mine to Kamrasi's to call Petherick.

At first he objected that they would be killed, but finally he yielded, and appointed Budja, his Unyoro ambassador, for the service.

Then, breaking up the court, he retired with a select party of Wakungu, headed by the Kamraviona, and opened a conversation on the subject which is ever uppermost with the king and his courtiers.
18th .-- To-day I visited Kaggao with my medicine-chest.

He had a local disease, which he said came to him by magic, though a different cause was sufficiently obvious, and wanted medicine such as I gave Mkuenda, who reported that I gave him a most wonderful draught.

Unfortunately I had nothing suitable to give my new patient, but cautioned him to have a care lest contagion should run throughout his immense establishment, and explained the whole of the circumstances to him.