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ing to exasperate the rest of the mob against us, I 

 rose, and going out before them, said that I came 

 forth for their satisfaction, and that they might now 

 stand and gaze as long as they liked ; but I hoped as 

 soon as their legs and arms were tired that they would 

 depart in peace. The words acted with magical effect 

 upon them ; they urgently requested me to retire 

 again, but finding that I did not, they took them- 

 selves homewards. The sultan arrived late in the 

 evening, he said from a long distance, on purpose to 

 see me, and was very importunate in his desire for 

 my halting a day. As I had paid all the other sul- 

 tans the compliment of a visit, he should consider it 

 a slight if I did not stay a little while with him. On 

 the occasion of my passing northwards he had been 

 absent, and could not entertain me ; so I must now 

 accept a bullock, which he would send for on the 

 morrow. A long debate ensued, which ended by my 

 giving him one shukka Amerikan, and one dhoti 

 kiniki. 



Travelling through the Nindo "Wilderness to-day 

 (13th), the Belooches were very much excited at the 

 quantity of game they saw; but though they tried 

 their best, they did not succeed in killing any. Troops 

 of zebras, the quagga and giraffe, some varieties of 

 antelopes roaming about in large herds, a buffalo and 

 one ostrich, were the chief visible tenants of this wild. 

 We saw the fresh prints of a very large elephant ; 

 and I have no doubt that by any sportsman, if he 



