ARRIVAL AT GUB ULE WE YO. 5 9 
women were carrying vessels of water on their heads 
as we arrived. It was bitterly cold, and there 
was both wind and rain. Fairbairn and a number 
of others were standing about the kraal. Petersen 
was there, and introduced me. They asked me in, 
and I drew up my waggon to Fairbairn's * scherm,' ^ 
and had breakfast with them. Fairbairn and Peter- 
sen took me to the king, whom I called on out of 
compliment, telling him that I had not yet unpacked 
my waggon — a hint that I should have a present 
for him. He was very gracious, and placed meat 
and plates before me, and inquired what sport I had 
had coming up, noticing the dilapidated state of my 
dress. I was going out of the hut legs first, when 
he pulled me back and made me go head first. He 
sent me to look at his new house, of which he is 
very proud. It is being built of brick by an Eng- 
lishman. 
"In the afternoon Fairbairn and I rode over to 
see Mr. Thomson, the missionary. He will act as in- 
terpreter if I wish, but does not think it necessary. 
As we returned at sundown, we met a party of 
natives. They were Umtegan's troop, returning 
from an ' impey,' or raid, with cattle taken from the 
Mashonas, a tribe not altogether subject to the king, 
though a part of them are. Umtegan was in 
European clothes, and on horseback. They stopped 
to go through the exercise of certain rites before 
1 The term applied to the small fold or enclosure made round a 
hut or waggon, for shelter and protection, by means of branches rudely 
placed in the ground. 
