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Mtesa has been meanwhile carelessly talking to his 
chiefs while the embassy addressed him, but suddenly 
he turns on the embassy his large glowing eyes, and 
speaks quickly and with decision : — 
“ Tell Mirambo from me that I do not want his gifts, 
but I must have the head of his man who slew my chief 
Singiri a year ago, as he was returning from Zanzibar 
to Uganda, or I will hunt him up with more Waganda 
than there are trees in his country. Go ! ” 
Another party now comes up. A chief is dead, and 
they wish to know who shall succeed him, and they have 
brought his sons along with them, that the Emperor 
may make his choice. 
Mtesa smiles and asks his chiefs to name the successor. 
One names Bugomba, another Taniziwa, another Kaseje, 
another Sempa. The chiefs fail 
to agree, and Mtesa asks play- 
fully, “ Which shall be chief ? ” 
whereupon the majority name 
Taniziwa as elected, after which 
we have to hear the “ Twiyanzis ” 
of the favoured one, and his 
ardent vows of allegiance to the 
Emperor. 
Just at this moment appears a long procession of 
females, old and young, at the sight of whom the 
Emperor rises to his feet, and his example is followed 
by all. Curious to know who they are, we ask, and are 
told that they are descendants of Ivamanya and Suna, 
wards and members of the imperial family. These 
ladies, it appears, know when to time their visits, and 
contrive to enter the levee late, as European ladies, to 
attract attention, are supposed to enter church late. 
As these ladies advance to the carpet, Mtesa greets 
each with a kind word, and after they are seated pro- 
ceeds to them, seats himself in their laps, and embraces 
one after another. In return for these imperial cour- 
tesies, they afterwards present him with live fowls, which 
he is compelled to receive with his own hands, and pass 
over to a chief to hold, that he may not appear to 
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