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THE KING OF UNYORO. 
to the north : two days he is at peace, and five days 
at war (curiously enough indicating the division of 
time into weeks). Changing the subject, he com- 
menced to scold a swarm of boys who were naturally 
peering in at the door. He ordered all but a few 
listeners to withdraw, and now commenced begging 
everything he saw in the hut. Pointing to his cheek, 
head, and back, he said that all his children after a 
certain age die ; we must give him a cure for this. 
A quantity of medicine was tied up in a veil, and he 
left abruptly, saying to his men, " Erokh togendeh n 
— Let us go. Although we accompanied him to 
his canoe, he took no notice of us, and was paddled 
across by some naked boys. No influential persons 
were around him, and when one of the scullers fell 
overboard the canoe was not stopped. The creature 
swam ashore, and commenced to scrub himself with- 
out any ceremony before his highness the king of 
Unyoro. 
With all his apparent rudeness, Kamarasi was not 
unkindly. Though his neighbour, M'tessa, ordered his 
subjects to be butchered, no such savage custom pre- 
vailed in Unyoro ; men were admonished, and told 
how fortunate they were under the king's lenient rule. 
Murderers, however, were flogged or speared, and 
their bodies thrown into the river KufTo. Scarcely a 
day passed that we did not receive a little flour, some 
drink (very coarse and bad), sweet potato, or other 
remembrance ; but the great present was made soon 
after our arrival, when we each had ten cows and five 
fowls sent us, with an explanation that the king 
thought it necessary to send us separate presents, as 
we had approached him by different routes. Before 
