GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



a beautiful white cock Orpington. Googly's face 

 was a picture when he first beheld it, never having 

 seen a large English fowl before. He poked his 

 head only out from behind the cook-house door ; 

 when he caught sight of it first of all his face 

 expressed wonder and astonishment, then a big 

 grin gradually spread over his face, showing his 

 gleaming teeth. My boys always called that cock 

 the '' Bwana Mkubwa " (the great master) my hus- 

 band was only the Bwana (master), so the cock 

 ranks with his excellency the governor. But, alas ! 

 that cock's pluck was not equal to his size, for he 

 allowed my little black country-bred cock to mo- 

 nopolise the affection of the hens, who obediently 

 followed him about, while he chased my beautiful 

 white bird and fought him ; but the Orpington 

 was too knowing, and ran to hide among the sun- 

 flowers in lonely exile, or to his pen, when the 

 black cock was after him, where he stuck his head 

 under a big box, leaving his wings and tail only at 

 the mercy of his relentless foe. He would even 

 clamber in his terror into a box with one of his 

 hens, who was trying vainly to bring out a chicken 

 from a hard-boiled egg. That little black cock 

 could get into or out of anything in his thirst for 

 his big enemy's blood, so one day we had him for 

 supper ; it was not often I could bring myself to 

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