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This, with a great deal more noisy irrelevant 
matter from himself and attendants, took up 
nearly half an hour, much to our annoyance. 
He ended, however, by telling us that he had 
left the settHng of the affair to Modiba, and re- 
turned to the town. 
In order that more time should not be lost 
here, we made an addition to the former pre- 
sent of forty-five bars, coral and dollars, and 
gave it to Modiba to present, as all we would or 
could give him. He was then drunk, and not 
to be seen. 
In a short hour after this, Mausafarra, the 
king's eldest son, came galloping from the town 
into our camp, attended by five or six people, 
armed with guns and spears, and, apparently in 
a great rage, said that he was offended at our 
not paying him our respects in person, and, al- 
though we might think little of him, he was, ne- 
vertheless, of as much consequence in the coun- 
try as his father. We endeavoured to pacify him 
by appearing in good humour, and was going to 
give him our hands, when he rode off, in as 
great a hurry as he came, having first made one 
of his men throw down a pile of our arms, which 
was standing near them. He was not contented 
with this indifference on our part, and shortly 
returned on foot, attended as before. The first 
person he met was Private Robinson, lying on' 
