266 KING OF UNYORO PREVENTS OUR ADVANCE. 
where my companion was ; but if I retired for two 
marches, and halted there, he would ask leave from 
his king. In the afternoon he anticipated my wish to 
send ten men into Unyoro to demand a reply from 
Kamarasi. To dispel the anxiety we both felt we 
went out shooting — Budja having dressed himself 
very smartly in cow and antelope skins. 
At night I assembled all the men to explain our 
difficulties, and to intimate to them that our rations 
of butcher -meat must be curtailed, otherwise there 
would be disgrace and starvation for us. They agreed 
to my proposals. 
17 th. — Halt. Having now been twenty-two days 
without a message from the king, as a last resource 
I sent a dozen men ahead, carrying some wires as a 
bribe, to ask why we had received no definite reply. 
In the mean time I went shooting some distance off, 
and had a shot at a leucotis buck standing knee-deep 
in water — the tall grasses almost concealing him. This 
animal is always to be found in ground of that nature, 
though he has not the hoofs of a waterboc. Eain 
commencing, we returned shortly before the sun had 
set, twenty-five villagers having accompanied us, and 
been entertained by my burning some powder in the 
bare palm of my hand. They told me it was no use 
sending men so often to Kamarasi, as he had deter- 
mined on not seeing us. 
18th. — Halt. My men all return from the Unyoro 
frontier, bringing back the presents of wire I had 
sent. The district officer said, "How can I receive 
these gifts if the king, my master, refuses to see the 
white man ? " and he added, that if I stayed ten years 
where I was the road would not be open to me. So, 
