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manship, and very old, but furnished with frames. 
Having waited here some time, till my arrival was 
announced, I proceeded to another antechamber, 
marked b, the whole of the building looking very neat 
and orderly. The courtyard probably measured not 
less than one hundred feet in length, by about thirty 
feet in width. Having then traversed another ante- 
chamber and courtyard of about the same dimensions, 
we reached the public court of audience, furnished 
with a raised platform, on which stood the royal 
throne, — a rough kind of seat covered with a bal- 
dachin of planks, and painted red. The sultan how- 
ever, at present, was not here, but was sitting in his 
private room e, behind a matting curtain ; and I was 
desired to address him without seeing him. I there- 
fore paid him my compliments, addressing Kashella 
Madi in Kamiri, and he interpreting what I said into 
the language of the country. I begged to inform the 
Mfyara that the sultan Ingliz, who, during the reign 
of the former chief of Log6n (the miyara Sale), had 
sent Khalilu (Major Denham), had now instructed 
me to pay my respects to him. He was greatly 
delighted at this compliment, and inquired repeatedly 
after the health of the sultan of the nasara Ingliz. 
Having made use of the opportunity afforded by the 
matting of observing me without being himself ob- 
served, and seeing that I was something like a human 
being, and evidently of an innoxious kind, and the 
present having been carried into his presence, he called 
me inside his room, saluted me in a very friendly man- 
ner, and shook hands with me. He then begged, me 
