The matter was compromised, however, on the condition that Budja should march across the border to-morrow, and wait for the return of these men and for further orders on the Unyoro side.
The bait took.

Budja lost sight of the necessity there was for his going to Gani to bring back a gun, ammunition, and some medicine--that is to say, brandy--for his king; and sent his men off with mine to tell Mtesa all our adventures--our double repulse, the intention to wait on the Unyoro side for further orders, and the account of some Waganda having wounded my men.

I added my excuses for Kamrasi, and laid a complaint against Mtesa's officers for having defrauded us out of ten cows, five goats, six butter, and sixty mbugu.

It was not that we required these things, but I knew that the king had ordered them to be given to us, and I thought it right we should show that his officers, if they professed to obey his orders, had peculated.

After these men had started, some friends of the villager who had been apprehended on the charge of assailing my men, came and offered Budja five cows to overlook the charge; and Budja, though he could not overlook it when I pleaded for the man, asked me to recall my men.