ABSTRACT
T H A T the account of the incidents immediately prior to the war may be as exact a reproduction of them as possible, I quote (as has been my custom throughout these volumes wherever space admitted of it) from notes which I wrote in my diary at the time. Indeed the whole of this chapter is largely identical with my diary. " On the 22d (Jan.), the Wa-Ingleza chiefs came to me, very greatly excited, to say that one of the rival faction had wantonly murdered one of their men, and also that a large number of Duta's (E.) shambas had been seized by the Mujasi (F.) They said they had not been allowed to take away the body of the murdered man, so they went to fetch some more of their own side. The opposite faction had defied them to come on,
and called them cowards unless they should remove their dead. The Katikiro (E.) forbade his side to fight, and sent to tell me. Their greatest grievance (they said) was the immediate insult in the exposure of the corpse; but if this were taken away and buried, they would appeal to the law regarding the murder.
