140 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

having made about seventy miles in the last three days.

Having now safely arrived at Kagei, I made preparations for returning to Uganda. I first set the carpenters to work overhauling the Daisy and getting her ready for sea. Then I looked through all the stores and repacked them, as I wished to take with me as large a cargo of goods as possible, especially of those things which the Wang'uana were most likely to steal. I then intended that the Daisy should return and bring a second cargo to Uganda, leaving at Kagei only the heavy tools and machinery, which would have to wait for an engineer to be turned to account. The Daisy was more out of repair than I had supposed, and I did not get off till March 22nd. We had a good run across the Lake, reaching Xtebbi early in the morning of the 25th. Here I met an Mganda chief, who was just starting for Kagei to meet me, bearing a letter from Mtesa, in which he begged me to return as speedily as possible ; so I sent word to the king of my arrival, and requested that men might be sent to transport my goods up to the capital. On the 28th I sent the Daisy back to Kagei for a second cargo. One of the crew, Baraka bin Asnian (who was precisely the reverse of what his first name signified, viz., " a blessing "), wanted to stay in Uganda, but as the Daisy was short of hands I refused, and on his persisting, I told him if he did not obey orders I