GXAJVXV.] 
DISPUTES WITH KJMBASL 
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the leader of the Turks' party, knowing that the 
victory was gained by the aid of his guns, refused to 
give up the captives to the demand of the king, 
claiming them as prisoners belonging to Ibrahim, and 
declining any arguments upon the matter until his 
master should arrive in the country. Kamrasi urged 
that, although the guns had been of great service, no 
prisoners could have been captured without the aid of 
his canoes that had been brought by land, dragged all 
the way from Karuma by hundreds of his people in 
readiness for the attack upon the islands. 
As usual in all cases of dispute, I was to be referee-.. 
Kamrasi sent his factotum Cassave in the night to 
my hut to confer with me without the Turks' know¬ 
ledge ; then came his brother, M'Gambi, and at length,, 
after being pestered daily by messengers, the great king 
arrived in person. He said that Eddrees was exces¬ 
sively insolent, and had threatened to shoot him ; that 
he had insulted him when on his throne surrounded 
by his chiefs, and that, had he not been introduced 
into the country by me, he would have killed him and 
his men on the spot. 
I advised Kamrasi not to talk too big, as he had 
lately seen what only ten guns had effected in the fight 
with Fowooka, and he might imagine the results that 
would occur should he even hint at hostility, as the 
large parties of Ibrahim and the men of Mahommed 
Wat-el-Mek would immediately unite and destroy 
both him and his country, and place his now beaten 
enemy Fowooka upon his throne, should a hair of a 
Turk's head be missing. The gallant Kamrasi turned 
almost green at the bare suggestion of this possi¬ 
bility. I advised him not to quarrel about straws, 
assuring him that as I had become responsible for the 
behaviour of the Turks while in his country, he need 
have no fear; but that, on the other hand, he must be 
both just and generous. If he would give them a 
supply of ivory he might always reckon upon them as 
valuable allies; but if he attempted to quarrel, they 
