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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

CHAPTER XVII
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Unyoro.
Invitation to the Palace at last--Journey to it--Bombay's Visit to King Kamrasi--Our Reputation as Cannibals--Reception at Court--Acting the Physician again--Royal Mendicancy.
We halted again, but in the evening one of Dr K'yengo's men came to invite us to the palace.

He explained that Kamrasi was in a great rage because we only received seven goats instead of thirty, the number he had ordered Kwibeya to give us, besides pombe and plantains without limitation.

I complained that Bombay had been shown more respect than myself, obtaining an immediate admittance to the king's presence.
To this he gave two ready answers--that every distinction shown my subordinate was a distinction to myself, and that we must not expect court etiquette from savages.
9th .-- We set off for the palace.

This last march differed but little from the others.


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