252 WE ARE CONSIDERED CANNIBALS. 
Two Seedees quarrelled, and fought with sticks for 
the heart of the cow just killed. I tried to separate 
them, but made matters worse, as the whole camp 
took up the quarrel. My side won; and the two 
were placed in different huts, but unfortunately not 
sufficiently apart to prevent their abusing each other. 
The result was, that they challenged each other to 
fight it out alone in the forest with sticks ; and I 
saw the silly creatures march away with a bludgeon, 
each to have their round out. No one followed, and 
no damage was done. 
27th. — Halt. Budja and five of my men have 
gone on a march to ask permission to advance. The 
rule will be very different to what we experienced in 
Uganda. If the people desert their houses, there will 
be no one to take payment for anything ; but should 
they remain, everything, even plantain or sweet potato, 
must be purchased, and nothing plundered. The day 
was a weary long one of expectation ; but by three 
o'clock in the afternoon the taps of Budja's drum in 
the distance were recognised, and we went to meet 
him returning from Unyoro. 
All the villagers except one man had run away at 
the sight of the Waganda ; but this person told them 
" to return for orders to-morrow, as the district officer 
was absent; they must not advance, otherwise there 
would be a fight. When they reach the king's, the 
white man, as he is a cannibal, w T ill have an albino to 
eat, and the Waganda the back-bones of an old cow ! 39 
It seemed odd that they should consider us cannibals; 
but my valet Uledi told me that in his native 
country of Uhiao the people there imagined that " all 
foreigners eat human flesh ; and that cloth was dyed 
