It would be no use calling it a peaceful mission, as you propose; for the Wanyoro distrust the Waganda to such an extent, they would fly to arms at once." Proceeding to the queen's palace, we met Murondo, who had once travelled to the Masai frontier.

He said it would take a month to go in boats from Kira, the most easterly district in Uganda, to Masai, where there is another N'yanza, joined by a strait to the big N'yanza, which king Mtesa's boats frequent for salt; but the same distance could be accomplished in four days overland, and three days afterwards by boat.
The queen, after keeping us all day waiting, sent three bunches of plantains and a pot of pombe, with a message that she was too tired to receive visitors, and hoped we would call another day.
6th .-- I met Pokino, the governor-general of Uddu, in the morning's walk, who came here at the same time as Grant to visit the king, and was invited into his house to drink pombe.

His badge of office is an iron hatchet, inlaid with copper and handled with ivory.

He wished to give us a cow, but put it off for another day, and was surprised we dared venture into his premises without permission from the king.

After this, we called at the palace, just as the king was returning from a walk with his brothers.