We sent a picture of Mtesa as a gift, the two books to look at and an acknowledgement that the mosquito-curtains were his, only he must have patience until Bombay arrived; but his proposition about the fence we rejected with scorn.
The king had been raising an army to fight Rionga--the true reason, we suspect, for the beating of the drums.
27th and 28th .-- There was drumming and music all day and night, and the army was being increased to a thousand men, but we poor prisoners could see nothing of it.

Frij was therefore sent to inspect the armament and brings us all the news.

Some of N'yamyonjo's men, seeing mine armed with carbines, became very inquisitive about them, and asked if they were the instruments which shot at their men on the Nile--one in the arm, who died; the other on the top of the shoulder, who was recovering.
The drums were kept in private rooms, to which a select few only were admitted.

Kamrasi conducts all business himself, awarding punishments and seeing them carried out.

The most severe instrument of chastisement is a knob-stick, sharpened at the back, like that used in Uganda, for breaking a man's neck before he is thrown into the N'yanza; but this severity is seldom resorted to, Kamrasi being of a mild disposition compared with Mtesa, whom he invariably alludes to when ordering men to be flogged, telling them that were they in Uganda, their heads would suffer instead of their backs.