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12th. The caravan got under way by 6 A.M., and we marched thirteen miles to a village in the southern extremity of the Unyambewa district. Fortunately tempers, like butterflies, soon change state.
13th. The caravan started at 6.30 A.M., and after travelling eight miles over an open, waving, well-cultivated country, stopped at the last village in Unyambewa. The early morning before starting was wasted by the pagazis "striking" for more cloth, and refusing to move unless I complied with their demand. I peremptorily refused, and they then tried to wheedle me out of beads.
We left Unyambewa at 7 A.M., and reached a village in the Ibanda district, having marched seven miles over flat ground, growing fine crops in some places, with the remainder covered by the usual slender forest-trees. The road was very good and regular.
Rising again up to the main level of the plantation, we walked into the boma of the chief of Unyambewa, Singinya, whose wife was my old friend the late sultana Ungugu's lady's-maid. Immediately on our entering her palace, she came forward to meet me with the most affable air of a princess, begged I would always come to her as I did then, and sought to make every one happy and comfortable.
The Country and People of U-n-ya-muezi Kaze, the Capital Old Musa The Naked Wakidi The N'yanza, and the Question of the River Running in or out The Contest between Mohinna and "Short-legs" Famine The Arabs and Local Wars The Sultana of Unyambewa Ungurue "The Pig" Pillage. U-n-ya-muezi Country of Moon must have been one of the largest kingdoms in Africa.
Meanwhile Musa's men bolted like thieves one night, on a report coming that the chief of Unyambewa, after concluding the war, whilst amusing himself with his wife, had been wounded on the foot by an arrow that fell from her hand.
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