We then began to talk in a general way about Suwarora and Rumanika, as well as the road through Unyamuezi, which we hoped would soon cease to exist, and be superseded by one through Unyoro.
It will be kept in view that the hanging about at this court, and all the perplexing and irritating negotiations here described, had always one end in view--that of reaching the Nile where it pours out of the N'yanza, as I was long certain that it did.

Without the consent and even the aid of this capricious barbarian I was now talking to, such a project was hopeless.

I naturally seized every opportunity for putting in a word in the direction of my great object, and here seemed to be an opportunity.

We now ventured on a plump application for boats that we might feel our way to Gani by water, supposing the lake and river to be navigable all the way; and begged Kitunzi might be appointed to accompany us, in order that whatever was done might be done all with good effect in opening up a new line of commerce, by which articles of European manufacture might find a permanent route to Uganda.

It was "no go," however.