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Dihaou is a cluster of three or four little villages, 

 each containing about fifteen houses. Soon after I 

 arrived presents came from the chief : twelve fowls, 

 five bunches of plantains, and a goat. Our welcome 

 was most friendly, and I felt almost sure of attaining 

 the object for which I had come. 



bth. We were all glad of rest after the fatigues 

 of our long march. My men all complained of sore 

 feet. In the evening the chief, Dihaou Okamba, 

 made me a formal visit to receive his return present. 

 I gave him a few articles, and the gift, although I 

 felt it to be an inadequate one, for I had not brought 

 goods with me, seemed to please the old fellow very 

 much. I promised him, however, a big coat, a neck- 

 lace of large beads, and some salt, on my return to 

 Olenda, on condition that he would send one of his 

 sons with me to- the Falls. I had forewarned him by 

 message, that I could not make a sufficient return for 

 the goat I heard he intended to give me ; but the old 

 man had all the pride and generosity which these 

 African chiefs usually show in dealing with the white 

 man — at least, whilst the friendship is new. He sent 

 back the reply : " I should not like it to be said that 

 Chaillie, the friend of Olenda, Chaillie my ntangani, 

 came to my town, and that I had not a goat to give 

 him to eat ; never." 



These Ashira Kambas consider themselves a distinct 

 people from the Ashira of the prairie, over which 

 Olenda and other chiefs ruled, and which are called 

 Ashira Ngozai. I could not, however, detect any 

 difference between them worthy of note, either in 

 their physique or customs, and the language of the 



