This was for the purpose of making us his tools in his conflict with his brothers.

I complained that he had, without consulting me, ordered away the men who had been sent, either to fetch me back to Uganda, or else get powder from me, although they had orders to carry out their king's desire, under the threat of being burnt with the fire logs they carried; and all this Kamrasi had professed to do merely out of respect for my dignity, as I was no slave, that Mtesa should order me about.

I argued, founding on each particular in succession, that his conduct throughout was most unjustifiable, and anything but friendly.

He then produced an officer, who was to escort my man Msalima to Karague, giving him orders to collect the sixty men required on the way; five of Rumanika's men could go with him, but five must stop, until other Karague men came to say the road was safe, when he would send by them the present he had prepared for Rumanika.
Then, turning to us, he said, "Why have you not brought the medicine-chest and the saw?
We wish to see everything you have got, though we do not wish to rob you." When these things came for inspection, he coveted the saw, and discovered there were more varieties of medicine in the chest than had been given him.

This he was told was not the case, because the papers given him contained mixed medicines--a little being taken from every bottle.