CniP. V. DIHAOU AND THE ASHIRA KAMBAS. 95 



Dihaoii is a cluster of three or four little villages, 

 each containing about fifteen houses. Soon after 1 

 arrived presents came from tlie chief : twelve fowls, 

 five bunches of plantains, and a goat. Our welcome 

 vpas most friendly, and I felt almost sure of attaining 

 the object for which I had come. 



btJi. We w^ere 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 ntaiigani, 

 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 tho 



