248 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN CAMP. 
this account I fancied that elephants are not uncom- 
mon in these parts. Manua, who has charge of our 
cattle, came crying, and bleeding from a jagged cut on 
the back of his head. A Seedee, twice his size, had 
struck him with a bludgeon for refusing to give up his 
hut. The offender, who generally was well-behaved, 
expressed great penitence. The truth of the story 
could not be arrived at ; and after threatening the 
Seedee with confinement in irons (which we hadn't), 
all seemed satisfied except Manua, who could not 
brook the insult of having been taunted for being 
" only an Unyamuezi." Blubbering most bitterly, he 
said, " It is not the wound that pains me, but here, 
here," violently beating his heart. Poor little fellow ! 
he felt his honour at stake, and swore he would take 
the other s life ; but nothing further occurred. 
We were to receive the remainder of our present 
of cows from M'tessa at this ground, which is on the 
borders of Uganda. Some cows are brought, but 
Budja pronounces them no better than goat. A par- 
ticular favourite of mine, Ooreymengo, the goat-boy, 
reported having seen a herd of Waganda villagers 
sweep away all our goats. I ordered an armed party 
of men to proceed in pursuit. Half an hour after- 
wards our goats were discovered grazing close by 
camp ; no one had stolen them — the boy had invented 
the story because he could not find them ! He was 
sentenced to receive twenty lashes, having lost three 
goats for us some time before. On his hearing my 
order, he exclaimed, " I don t want to be flogged " but 
Mabruk tied him to a tree and gave it him well with 
a long switch. On asking the latter, whose duty it 
also was to keep count of the cattle, how many cows 
