The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-25

"Some other things which he said made
me think little of their meaning.
HE said, when people have provis-
ions in their huts, they do not say let US
go into another mans house and rob
him.
s'He also said: ssWhen you seek a
crook back, you do not ask him to stand
straight, nor an old man to join the
dance, nor the man who is in pain to
laugh
land what he said about the traveller
is very true. The man who clings to his
him who sees many lands and hears new
stories.
ssThe next day stopped at village
near the lake of Kitesas called Mtukura.
The chief in charge loved talking so
much that he soon made me as well ac-
quainted with the affairs of his family as
though he courted my sister. His people
are accustomed to eat frogs and rats, and
from the noise in the reeds, and the rust
lings and squealings in the roof of the
hut slept in, think there is little fear
of famine in that village. Nor are they
averse, they tell me, to iguanas and those
vile feeders, the hyenas.
''It is common belief in the country
that it was Naraki, a wife of I'm, sui
tan of Unyore, who made that lake.
| While passing through she was very
thirsty, and cried out to her Muzimu
| (spirit), the Muzimu which attends the
kings of Unyoro and which are most po-
tent. And all at once there YVES Kissing
| fight of fire stones (meteorites?) in the
air, and Immediately after there was fall
of 5 monstrously large one, which stuck
the ground close to her, and made great
hole, out of which the water spurted, and
the water continued leaping up until a
lake was formed and buried the fountain
out OF SIGH, and the rising waters formed
river, which has run north from the
lake ever since into the Katu.
ssClose by this lake is dark grove, sa-
cred to Muzingeh, the king of the birds.
1t is said that he has only one eye, but
once a year he visits the grove, and after
building his house he commands all the
birds from the NyanZas and the groves to
come and see him and pay their homage.
For half a moon the birds, great and
small, may be seen following him along
the shores of the lake like so many guards
around king, and before night they are
seen returning in the same manner to the
grove. The parrots cries tell the natives
when they come, and no one would care
to miss the sight and the glad excitement
among the feathered tribe. But there is
one bird called the kirurumu that refuses
Muzingen. The other birds have tried
often to induce him to associate with the
Muzingeh, but Kirurumu always answers
that beautiful creature, with gold and
blue feathers and such pretty crest, was
never meant to be seen in the company of
an ugly bird that possesses only one eye.
son the other side of Lake Mtukura
is a forest where Dungu, the king OF the
ANIMALS, lives. 1t is to Dungu that all
fhaxr r.,
look for game. lie builds first a small
hut, and after propitiating him with a
small piece of flesh, he asks Dungu that
he may be successful. Then Dungu en-
| tiers into the hunters head, If he is
pleased with the offering, and the cum
ming of the man becomes great; his
nerves stiffen and his bowels strengthen
and the game is secured. When Dungu
wishes man to succeed in the hunt it is
useless for the buffalo to spurn the earth
and moon, or for the leopard to cover
himself with sand in his rage-the spear
of the hunter drinks his blood. But the
hunter must not forget to pay the tribute
! to the deity, lest he be killed on the way
| home.
''The friendly chief insisted that I
should become his blood fellow, and to
stay with him a couple of days. The
witch doctor, a man of great influence
/ .
He took sharp little knife and made a
cash in the skin of my right leg, just
| above the knee, and did the same to the
chief, and then rubbed his blood over
nv wound, and my blood over his and we
became brothers. Among his gifts was
! this beautiful shield, which l beg Mtesa,
my kabaka, to accept, because | have
seen none so beautiful, and it is too good
/ for colonel who wants to serve his king.
81 am glad that rested there, because
saw most wonderful sight toward even
| ing. AS we were seated under the ba-
nanas, sucking wine by straws from our
gourds, we heard big he goats bleat,
and by the sound of it we knew that it
was neither for fun nor for love. 1t was
tone of anger and OF lear. Almost at
the same time one of the boys rushed up
to us and his face had turned gray and he
cried: There is lion in the goat pen
and the big he goat is fighting with him.
! They had forgotten to tell me about this
famous goat, which was called Kasuju,
! after some great man who had been re-
| nowned in war, and he certainly was
worth speaking about, and Kasuju was
well known round about for his wonder
full strength and fighting qualities. When
we got near the pen with our spears and
shields the he goat was butting the lion
who was young, for he had no name, as
he might have butted a pert young
nanny goat and baaing with as
full note as that of buffalo
calf. 1t appears that Kasuju saw the de-
stroyer creeping toward one of his wives,
and dashing at his flank knocked him
down. AS we looked on from the outside
we saw the Kasuju was holding his own
very we'll, and we thought that we would
not check the fight, but prepare ourselves
to have good cast at the lion as he at
tempted to leave. The lion was getting
reused up and we saw the spring he made
but Kasuju nimbly slept aside and gave
him such stroke that it sounded like
drum. Then Kasuiu trotted away in
front OF his trembling wives, and as tht
lion came up we watched him draw hi!
ears back as he raised himself on hi;
hind fleet like a warrior. The lion ad.
vanced to him and he likewise rose a.
though he would wrestle with him, wher
Kasuiu shot into his throat with so true
and fair a stroke that drove one of his
horns deep into the throat. 1t was ther
the lions claws began to work, and will
every scratch poor Kasuju's hide wa!
torn dreadfully, but he kept his horn il
the wound, and pushed home and made
the wound large. Then the lion spranf
free and the blood spurted all oyel
Kasuju. Blinded with his torn anc
hanging scalp and weakened with his
wounds, he staggered about, pounding