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Unyoro--Continued.
The Ceremonies of the New Moon--Kamrasi's Rule and Discipline--An Embassy from Uganda, and its Results--The Rebellious Brothers--An African Sorcerer and his Incantations--The Kamraviona of Unyoro--Burial Customs--Ethiopian Legends--Complicated Diplomacy for our Detention--Proposal to send Princes to England--We get away.
26th .-- We found that the palace was shut up in consequence of the new moon, seen for the first time last evening; and incessant drumming was the order of the day.

Still, private interviews might be granted, and I sent to inquire after the state of the king's health.

The reply was, that the medicine had not taken, and the king was very angry because nothing was given him when he took the trouble to call on us.

He never called at a big man's house and left it mwiko (empty-handed) before; if there was nothing else to dispose of, could Bana not have given him a bag of beads?
To save us from this kind of incessant annoyance, I now thought it would be our best policy to mount the high horse and bully him.