This was rather startling news to us, for Vittagura said he was commander-in-chief; Kajunju thought himself biggest, so did Kwibeya, and even Dr K'yengo's men justified Budja's speech.
5th and 6th .-- Still another halt, with all sorts of excuses.

Frij, it appeared, dreamt last night that the king of Uganda came to fight us for not complying with his orders, and that all my men ran away except Uledi and himself.

This, according to the interpretation of the coast, would turn out the reverse, otherwise his head must be wrong, and, according to local science, should be set right again by actual cautery of the temples; and as Grant dreamt a letter came from Gani which I opened and ran away with, he thought it would turn out no letter at all, and therefore Kamrasi had been humbugging us.

We heard that Bombay had shot a cow before Kamrasi and would not be allowed to return until he had eaten it.
At last we made a move, but only of two hours' duration, through the usual forest, in which elephants walked about as if it were their park.
We hoped at starting to reach the palace, but found we must stop here until the king should send for us.

We were informed that doubtless he was looking into his Uganga, or magic horn, to discover what he had to expect from us; and he seemed as yet to have found no ground for being afraid of us.