We go to Ganda. 
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own people he is remarkable for the lack of muscular 
development; his limbs, for muscle, nerve, and sinew, 
are those of a child. The expression of his coun- 
tenance is mild and serious, his features being cast 
in a decidedly Asiatic mould. What is true of all 
Gallas is equally so of him ; colour excepted, there is 
nothing of the negro about him. The form of his 
head is good, only that the forehead is unpleasantly 
large. The eyes lie back, beneath beetling brows ; the 
nose is long, straight, and sharp ; the cheeks are thin and 
somewhat sunken ; and a small mouth, with thin lips, 
a pointed chin, adorned with a little beard, make 
up a physiognomy which, but for the brutal expres- 
sion overshadowing it, would not be unpleasing even 
to the taste of the European. We did not see enough 
of him to judge of his disposition. To us he seemed 
remarkably taciturn. He sat before us rubbing his 
teeth with a fibrous piece of wood mswaki, kis,") 
as if by this to make up for the awkwardness of his 
silence. He scarcely looked at us, but kept his eyes 
steadily fixed upon the ground almost the whole of 
the time. When he did speak it was in tones scarcely 
audible, and with great un-Galla-like brevity. He 
neither addressed us nor our interpreter directly, but 
spoke through his brother, who made long speeches 
out of the few sentences uttered by the chief. Per- 
haps it was our presence that caused this constraint. 
We heard that among his own people he is fluent 
and wordy enough. 
The substance of what he said to us is as follows, 
am glad to have seen you. You talk of coming 
again, I shall be pleased for you to do so. In a few 
months my term of office will expire, it is true, but I 
