LIFE IN UGANDA. Ill remiss in this respect, and left me for weeks at a time without any. Smith also, thinking that the supplies from the palace would be kept up with the same liberality as at first, had left me comparatively few cloths and beads, and I was often very much puzzled how to get a meal. Mtesa, too, began to bully me, to try and get me to promise him arms and ammunition ; when we first came he broached this subject, and seemed much disappointed at our refusal to have anything to do with the matter, and for a long time he never referred to it again. But after Smith left, hoping, I suppose, to find me more compliant now that I was alone, he was perpetually bringing up the subject and laying traps', for me, to try and get me to promise to make him !

guns, or at least to assist him in procuring arms.

Both these things, of course, I persistently refused to do, and in consequence I was in his black books for some time. One of the ways in which he showed his displeasure was by turning me out of the house he had given us. As I afterwards found, this was at the suggestion of one Hamis, an Arab employe of Said bin Salim, governor of Unyanyembe, and Burton's and Speke's former Eas Kafilah. Mtesa wanted at first to send me into some wretched little huts as bad as could be, but I absolutely refused to stir till he built me a decent house, and this he at last consented to do. I had tried hard to buy land when we first settled in Uganda, and had begged Mtesa to