These excuses, of course, would not satisfy us.

The boats must be collected, seven, if there are not ten, for we must try them, and come to some understanding about them, before we march up stream, when, if the officer values his life, he will let us have them, and acknowledge Karoso as the king's representative, otherwise a complaint will be sent to the palace, for we won't stand trifling.
We were now confronting Usoga, a country which may be said to be the very counterpart of Uganda in its richness and beauty.

Here the people use such huge iron-headed spears with short handles, that, on seeing one to-day, my people remarked that they were better fitted for digging potatoes than piercing men.

Elephants, as we had seen by their devastations during the last two marches, were very numerous in this neighbourhood.

Till lately, a party from Unyoro, ivory-hunting, had driven them away.