84 AFRICAN CAMP FIRES. 



mollah was clambering into a high scaffold built 

 of poles, whence shortly he began to intone a 

 long-drawn-out "Allah! Allah ! U Allah!" 

 The cocoanut palms cut the sunset, and the 

 boabab trees the fat, lazy boababs looked 

 more monstrous than ever. We called our guide 

 and conferred on him the munificent sum of 

 sixteen and a half cents ; with which, apparently 

 much pleased, he departed. Then slowly we 

 wandered back to the hotel. 



