I found him sitting with his brothers, all playing in concert on flutes.

I asked him, in Kisuahili, if he knew where Grant was?
On replying in the negative, I proposed sending a letter, which he approved of; and Budja was again ordered to go with an army for Petherick.
22d .-- Mabruki and Bilal, with Budja, started to meet Petherick, and three more men, with another letter to Grant.

I called on the king, who appointed the 24th instant for an excursion of three days' hippopotamus-shooting on the N'yanza.
23d .-- To-day occurred a brilliant instance of the capricious restlessness and self-willedness of this despotic king.

At noon, pages hurried in to say that he had started for the N'yanza, and wished me to follow him without delay.

N'yanza, as I have mentioned, merely means a piece of water, whether a pond, river, or lake; and as no one knew which N'yanza he meant, or what project was on foot, I started off in a hurry, leaving everything behind, and walked rapidly through gardens, over hills, and across rushy swamps, down the west flank of the Murchison Creek, till 3 p.m., when I found the king dressed in red, with his Wakungu in front and women behind, travelling along in the confused manner of a pack of hounds, occasionally firing his rifle that I might know his whereabouts.