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A WOMAN MADE PRISONER. 
In concluding these remarks upon the country lying 
between the two rivers Kitangule and Katonga, which 
is occupied by Wanyambo, Wanyoro, Wazeewa, and 
Waganda, it maybe mentioned that "Khass Uganda," 
or Uganda proper, has yet to be reached when the 
Katonga river is crossed ; and as the dwellings, domes- 
tic and wild animals, &c, had nothing about them 
peculiar, we shall not stop to describe them, but cross 
the arm of the lake at the mouth of the above river. 
Letters from Speke announced that the king of 
Uganda, as well as himself, were impatient for my ar- 
rival, and that I was expected to come by water. The 
king, he said, now dressed in English clothes, and our 
men were regularly supported by him. Uganda, how- 
ever, was not a land of milk and honey. Grain could 
not be had to make bread, and I was, if possible, to 
lay in stores of flour and pease among the Wazeewa 
people. 
By sunrise of the 20th May 1862, I had packed and 
was ready to cross the equator at Katonga Bay. See- 
ing a new face seated apart from, but within sight of, 
Mariboo's little wife, for the sake of speaking to the 
downcast-looking creature I advanced and asked her 
the way out of camp ; she suckled an infant, was very 
pretty, with deep black round eyes, and she smilingly 
gave the information. She was so interesting that on 
getting into camp for the day I inquired her history. 
She had been captured by my Waganda the previous 
day, and was now their prisoner, for our party was 
strong, and her relatives, had they come to claim her, 
would also have been made slaves. She had not been 
brought into camp : we never again saw her, and my 
Seedees told me she must have been sold, as the Wa- 
