KAGEI TO TABORA AXD SACK. 141 should punish him, whereupon he burst into tears and wept like a child. This man was an inveterate opium-eater, and when he could get his darling drug was in a chronic state of maudlin stupor. I reached Rubaga on March 31st, and the following day had an interview with Mtesa, who seemed much pleased to have me back again ; and I heard an amusing story of the discomfiture of a rnandwa, or sorcerer, who, one day, just after Mtesa had sent to meet me, appeared at court and assured him that I should never return to Uganda. Next day came the news that I had arrived at Ntebbi ; so Mtesa sent for the mandwa, and asked him if he had heard that this prophecy had been nullified. " Oh," was his reply, " the Mzungu has reached Ntebbi, but he will never reach Rubaga." "Do you mean that I am to kill my guest ? " said Mtesa. " No, you are a liar, and your prophecies are untrue : you shall go to prison;" and the man was put in the stocks there and then. I found, on inquiring, that Dr. Emin had been nearly three months in Uganda and had left only a short time before my return.

On April 30th two mail runners arrived from Ntebbi, bringing a large batch of letters, newspapers, and periodicals. They had come over in the Daisy, which was then lying at Ntebbi. Among other letters was one from Mackay, in which he said he was then (January llth) about to despatch a caravan under the care of an Arab, to Kagei, and he