CHAPTER III. 



VISIT TO THE KISULODI-NI MISSION HOUSE. 



Tremolavano i rai del sol nascente 



Sovra I'onde del mar purpuree e d'oro, 



E in vesti di zaffiro il ciel ridente, 



Specchiar parea le sue bellezze in loro. 



D 'Africa i venti fieri e d'Oriente, 

 Sovra il letto del mar prendean ristoro. — TASSO^fi. 



Leaving directions with Lakhmidas to land 

 and lodge our cockroacli- gnawed luggage, and 

 deputing Said bin Salim, supported by our two 

 Portuguese servants and his three slaves, to 

 protect it, we set out on the morning after 

 our arrival to visit M. Rebmann of the ' Mom- 

 bas Mission ' at Esulodi-ni, his station. Before 

 the sun gained power to destroy the dewy fresh- 

 ness of dawn, we slowly punted up the northern 

 sea-arm which bounds the Mombasah islet : in our 



