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fortunately without injuring either him or the page on 
whose shoulder it rested. General alarm prevailed for 
a short time, until that, seeing it was about to be 
accepted as a bad omen, I examined the rifle and showed 
Mtesa an ancient flaw in the barrel, which his good 
sense perceived had led to the fracture. The gun was 
a very old one, and had evidently seen much service. 
On the 10th of April the court broke up its hunting 
lodges at Usavara, on Murchison Bay, and moved to 
the capital, whither I was strongly urged to follow. 
one of mr. Stanley’s companions — bull. 
Mtesa, escorted by about two hundred musketeers and 
the great Wakungu and their armed retainers, travelled 
quickly, but owing to my being obliged to house my 
boat from the hot sun, I did not reach the capital until 
1 P.M. 
The road had been prepared for his Imperial Majesty’s 
hunting excursion, and was eight feet wide, through 
jungle and garden, forest and field. Beautiful land- 
scapes were thus enjoyed of rolling land and placid 
lake, of gigantic tamarinds and gum-trees, of extensive 
