. Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa; . charging at their king, making violentprotestations of faith and honesty, for which they were applauded. Speke was now, towards the end of May, looking forward to thwarrival of Grant. To propitiate the despot he sent a compass, greatly tothe delight of Mtesa, who no sooner saw it than he jumped and yelledwith intense excitement, and said it was the greatest present Bana hadever given him, for by this he found out all the roads and countries. It had been arranged that Grant should come by water; but thenatives, fearing to trust themselves
. Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa; . charging at their king, making violentprotestations of faith and honesty, for which they were applauded. Speke was now, towards the end of May, looking forward to thwarrival of Grant. To propitiate the despot he sent a compass, greatly tothe delight of Mtesa, who no sooner saw it than he jumped and yelledwith intense excitement, and said it was the greatest present Bana hadever given him, for by this he found out all the roads and countries. It had been arranged that Grant should come by water; but thenatives, fearing to trust themselves on the lake, brought him all the dis-tance on a litter. At length, the sound of guns announced the arrival ofGrant, and Speke hurried off to meet his friend, who was now able tolimp about a little, and to laugh over the accounts he gave of histravels. The travellers forthwith began to make arrangements for proceedingon to Unyoro, governed by Kamrasi, of despicable character and con-sidered merciless and cruel, even among African potentates, scattering. << 5 Q 171 172 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. death and torture around at the mere whim of the moment; while hewas inhospitable, covetous, and grasping, yet too cowardly to declarewar against the King of the Waganda, who had deprived him of por-tions of his dominions. The Waganda people were, therefore, veryunwilling to escort the travellers into his territory; and Colonel Congoudeclared that if compelled to go, he was a dead man, as he had once ledan army into Unyoro. The travellers great object was to reach the spot where the Nile wassupposed to flow out of the Victoria Nyanza, and proceed down thestream in boats. By July the arrangements for their journey were made. The kingpresented them with a herd of cows for their provisions, as well as somerobes of honor and spears, and he himself came out with his wives tosee them off, Speke ordered his men to turn out under arms andacknowledge the favors received. Mtesa complimented them
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