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leaving, we solicited, and were presented with, a few 
more cattle, and a tusk was offered to each of our 
head-servants. In return for his presents, Kamarasi 
received English and foreign goods to the value, in 
England, of £150 sterling; this included a double 
gun and rifle, a chronometer, &c. Besides these, he 
obtained a considerable quantity of property left 
behind at Karague ; so that it is confidently hoped 
he will treat all future white men with due hospi- 
tality. 
Kamarasi was constantly visited by men of far 
countries coming to trade with him for cattle, slaves, 
and ivory. By his permission, the Waganda who had 
accompanied Speke to the Ripon Falls arrived with a 
message for us from their king. When they appeared, 
in their beautifully clean dresses, our hearts quite 
warmed towards them as old friends. Their orders, 
they said, were to accompany us through fire and 
water as far as we wished, only they were not to 
go to England ! Kamarasi would not hear of this, 
telling them, until he heard farther from M'tessa, he 
would not risk their lives amongst the wild people of 
Kidi and Madi ; so they had to return to their king 
with a messenger from us in the form of a tin-lid, 
which was supposed to convey our kind remembran- 
ces. We gave them some salt, which they licked like 
sugar. Unfortunately they would not eat our beef, 
as it had not been killed by one of themselves, and 
had been boiled in our pots ; however, they got some 
porridge, some mwenge, and a cow. Before leav- 
ing, after having knelt to " nyanzig " (return thanks) 
at our door, they expressed themselves devoted to us ; 
"their lips had been sweetened and their hearts 
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