290 THE WAG AN I EATING RAW MEAT. 
warmed in our society." The skins on which they 
had been seated in our hut were smartly bundled 
up by boy-pages, their court -dresses exchanged for 
marching costume, and away the merry creatures 
went back to their king. I learned with regret that 
my good friend Budja had died from the fatigues 
of marching back and forward between Uganda and 
Unyoro. The report was that the " black art " had 
accomplished his end. A thorough soldier the poor 
fellow was, with good tact and spirit. 
People from Gani to the north often paid Kamarasi 
visits : they and the Kidi were similar in one respect 
— neither, in their own country, wore any covering 
around the loins, and their language was a perfectly 
new one to our men, as well as to the great majority 
of the people of Unyoro. They used to come with 
strange presents : for instance, a small tusk, the skin 
of a tippet monkey, a string of handsome beads pro- 
cured from Egyptian traders, and the tail of a giraffe, 
formed one present received by the king while we 
were there. They returned to their homes with a 
few cattle in exchange. The Wagani had conveyed 
and brought back Bombay from the camp of Nubians, 
and for this service they received a cow. After it had 
been skinned, the muscle that lies on either side of 
the back-bone was neatly taken off in a long ribbon, 
the meat scraped off, and eaten before us without 
being cooked. A portion of the entrails was also 
eaten raw at the same time. It seemed quite a bonne 
bouche to them after their journey ; and on the fol- 
lowing morning, when they were seen wearing the fat 
of the animal twisted in a coil round their bare necks, 
they looked fresh and well after their dinner of the 
