The message continued to this effect: I need be under no apprehensions about the road to the coast, for he would give me as many men as I liked; and, fearing I might be short of powder, he had sent some with the Wanguana.
Both Wanguana were by the king given women for their services, and an old tin cartridge-box represented Mtesa's card, it being an article of European manufacture, which, if found in the possession of any Mganda, would be certain death to him.

Finally, all the houses and plantains where my men were wounded had been confiscated.
When this message was fully delivered, Budja said we must return without a day's delay.

I, on the contrary, called up Kidgwiga.

I did not like my men having been kept prisoners in Uganda, and pronounced in public that I would not return.

It would be an insult to Kamrasi my doing so, for I was now in his "house" at his own invitation.