THE KING OF UNYORO. 
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he must have table-knives, musquito- curtains, our 
pots and pans, our medicines, finger-rings, &c, and 
most of them, had to be rendered up. Once, when we 
had got into our boat after an audience, he followed 
and ordered us out into one with water in it, because 
he required the best canoe for himself. All was done 
so roughly, and with such a total want of grace and 
hospitality, that, at the moment, I felt inclined to 
throw myself into the river and swim across it, but 
the effect would have been lost upon such a cold- 
blooded mortal. 
On his sending to announce that he would pay us 
a visit, Speke prepared his hut as nicely as our means 
admitted, by ornamenting it with antelope -horns, 
blankets from our beds, the union -jack, &c. A 
japanned tin case was covered for his highness s 
throne, and a donkey-rug placed for his feet. Salutes 
were arranged to announce his arrival, and all our 
men had donned their best to pay him every honour. 
But our preparations were not seen to advantage, for 
a wooden stool and some leopard-skins were placed 
for his majesty to sit upon, hiding our decorations. 
On being asked to change his seat for the one we had 
prepared, he eyed it suspiciously, and in a coarse 
voice asked what it was — what was underneath ? and 
on being shown that it was no more than a box such 
as he had previously received in a present, he sat 
himself down upon it. The conversation turned upon 
trade. " Did he desire traffic by opening the road to 
the north?" With his usual chilling stiff manner, 
though seeing the advantage to himself, he replied 
that all the ivory of his country now goes to Zan- 
zibar, because he is constantly at war with the tribes 
