172 Wanderings in Easte^m Africa. 
randah) of his masters house. He said he had been 
directed to put us into that house because it was the 
best in the place ; if we left it it w^as our own look-out , 
but he could not put his master's guests into a mere 
''baraza." There, however, we went, and there we 
slept. The house itself, though spacious, was simply 
a harem, and w^e could not therefore be allowed to 
occupy it. 
