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punitive raid against some tribe living higher up the river and 

 on the opposite bank, and brought back some hundreds of sheep 

 and goats. A handsome share of his spoil, I am told, he gave 

 as a present to the fort. A good many of his patients were 

 treated by me gratis, and his present to me of a couple of 

 chickens was not meant as an acknowledgment for the scores 

 of cases I had attended, but was simply the native style of 

 greeting which a courteous African chief usually gives to every 



THE LANGO CHIEF AMIEN. 



European traveller, whether he be clerk or commissioner. I 

 beheve even missionaries have been driven to the conclusion, 

 that gratitude is a stage in mental development which the African 

 savage, whether he be peasant or chief, has not yet attained to. 

 Lejumba is closely related to the royal house of Unyoro, for his 

 father was the nephew of the late king, but a bitter blood-feud 

 existed already then between the two families. He is, therefore, 

 bound to be a faithful ally of the white man, for if he fell into 

 the hands of ex-king Kabarega's sons, his doom would be sealed. 

 He did not strike me as being particularly intelligent, but he 



