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All this was very good ; but, on the day of our de- 
parture, having already received and expressed satis- 
faction with the presents from Speke, he showed his 
true character by demanding a separate present from 
me. He so far forgot himself as to seize two cases of 
ammunition and a gun, and drove my porters out of 
the village with his stick. Poor old man ! some cloth 
and beads sent the following day softened his anger, 
and my effects were allowed to leave his dominions. 
He was much respected in the country, and most of 
the neighbouring sultans visited him with great for- 
mality. On these occasions my guns were asked for 
to fire salutes. The procession would be headed by 
spearsmen, then followed the lady visitors carrying 
gourds of pombe, drums beating furiously, shots, sham- 
fights, &c. ; and the sultan would ask me to join in 
the dance. After a time I was called upon by the 
strangers, and every book, box, blanket, &c, was 
minutely scrutinised by them. 
On the morning of the 8th June, my journal re- 
marks : — " a.m., One shot knocked over two guinea-fowl 
— a blessing — nothing to eat ; people pleased at seeing 
them. No fever. Sultan still here : whole village at 
pombe ; had a potful sent me, but cat turned it over. 
Bombay and Eehan asleep all day. Called for dinner 
at usual hour, fire black out ; asked for the roast-fowl 
of the morning — Eehan had eaten it. Took all this 
philosophically, and got two fellows to prepare a 
guinea-fowl by 7^ p.m. Not many drunken men 
about — all asleep." A batch of tall Watusi men paid 
me visits ; my umbrella was much fancied by their 
chief. He offered me his pipe for it ; and, finding this 
was not enough, he brought me another day an iron 
