ion for strength and courage was well known, the villagers
then submissively permitted him to do as he listed.

As he grew up in might and valour, Uni's regards cooled towards Wanyana,
and, as she was not permitted that freedom formerly enjoyed by her, her
visits to Kimyera ceased. Mugema sympathised with the mother, and
contrived to send Kimyera with pots to sell to the people of the court,
with strict charge to discover every piece of news relating to the
Princess Wanyana. The mother's heart dilated with pride every time she
saw her son, and she contrived in various ways to lengthen the
interview. And each time he returned to his home he carried away some
gift from Wanyana, such as leopard-skins, strings of beast claws, beads,
and crocodile-teeth, girdles of white monkey-skin, parcels of ground
ochre, or camwood, or rare shells, to show Mugema and his wife. And
often he used to say, "Wanyana bade me ask you to accept this gift from
her as a token of her esteem," showing them similar articles.

His mother's presents to him in a short time enabled him to purchase two
fine large dogs--one was black as charcoal, which was named by him
_Msigissa_, or "Darkness," the other was white as a cotton tuft, and
called _Sema-gimbi_, or "Wood-burr." You must know that it is because
of the dog Darkness, that the Baboon clan of Uganda became so attached
to black dogs, by which they perpetuate the memory of Kimyera.

When he had become the owner of Darkness and Wood-burr, he began to
absent himself from home for longer periods, leaving the herds in charge
of the herdsmen. With these he explored the plains, and hills, and
woods to a great distance from his home. Sometimes he would be absent
for weeks, causing great anxiety to his kind foster-parents. The
further he went the more grew his passion to know what lay beyond the
furthest ridge he saw, which, when discovered, he would be again tempted
to explore another that loomed in the far distance before him. With
every man he met he entered into conversation, and obtained a various
knowledge of things of interest relating to the country, the people, and
the chiefs. In this manner before many months he had a wide knowledge
of every road and river, village and tribe, in the neighbouring lands.

On his return from these daring excursions, he would be strictly
questioned by Mugema and his wife as to what he had been doing, but he
evaded giving the entire truth by rehearsing the hu