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Updated: May 16, 2025
The people of Lira were fighting with their friends the Langgos those of Shooa with the natives of Fatiko; nor were there two neighbouring tribes that were at peace.
Keep a few here, and send the main force with my army to attack him at once, before he has time to escape to the Langgos." I could almost have imagined that I had been speaking with Kamrasi, so thoroughly did his son resemble him in his diplomacy. I answered him with caution, declaring that I could not allow any reckless acts that would plunge the country in confusion.
He said, "If the natives of this country, and also the Langgos and the Umiros, shall hear that I have exchanged blood with the Pacha, they will have thorough confidence, as they will know that he will always be true to me, and I to him; but without this irrevocable contract, they will always suspect some intrigue, either upon your side or mine."
"The chief, Kittakara, who is a kind of prime minister to Kabba Rega, gave me this afternoon the history of the country. "Kabba Rega is the sixteenth king since the original conquest of Unyoro by the Gallas. These invaders arrived from the East, beyond the country of the Langgos. "To this day a peculiar custom is observed.
Generally, flat plains of the rich grass known as negheel, which never grows high, and is the finest pasturage. The Langgos were an immense tribe, but were, like the Baris, divided under many chiefs. These people were exceedingly large and powerful, and were esteemed as great warriors. They seldom ate flour, but lived upon the milk and flesh of their innumerable herds.
It would be necessary to form a corps of irregulars under the command of Wat-el-Mek, which I should immediately send to occupy Unyoro. Rionga told me that he should attack M'rooli in company with the Langgos and Umiros, who would quickly overrun the country now that Kabba Rega was unsupported by the slave-hunters. He at once collected fifty natives to carry our loads to Fatiko.
I was to exchange blood with Rionga; Colonel Abd-el-Kader and Lieutenant Baker were to go through the same interesting ceremony with his minister and his son at the same time. I recommended him at once to summon the chiefs of the Langgos and the Umiros, as I should wish to secure their alliance and allegiance without loss of time.
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