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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
The printed handkerchiefs, which I had in abundance at 
Unyanyembe, would have gone well here. After re- 
ceiving his present, the chief introduced his son, a tall 
youth of eighteen or thereabouts, to the Doctor, as a 
would-be son of the Doctor ; but, with a good-natured 
laugh, the Doctor scouted all such relationship with 
him, as it was instituted only for the purpose of drawing 
more cloth out of him. Mukamba took it in good part, 
and did not insist on netting more. 
Our second evening at Mukamba’s, Susi, the Doctor’s 
servant, got gloriously drunk, through the chiefs liberal 
and profuse gifts of pombe. Just at dawn next morning 
I was awakened by hearing several sharp, crack-like 
sounds. I listened, and I found the noise was in our 
hut. It was caused by the Doctor, who, towards mid- 
night, had felt some one come and lie down by his side 
on the same bed, and, thinking it was me, he had kindly 
made room, and laid down on the edge of the bed. But 
in the morning, feeling rather cold, he had been 
thoroughly awakened, and, on rising on his elbow to 
see who his bed-fellow was, he discovered, to his great 
astonishment, that it was no other than his black ser- 
vant, Susi, who taking possession of his blankets, and 
folding them about himself most selfishly, was occupying 
almost the whole bed. The Doctor, with that gentle- 
ness characteristic of him, instead of taking a rod, had 
contented himself with slapping Susi on the back, saying, 
“ Get up, Susi, will you ? You are in my bed. How 
dare you, sir, get drunk in this way, after I have told 
you so often not to. Get up. You won’t. Take that, 
and that, and that.” Still Susi slept and grunted ; so 
the slapping continued, until even Susi’s thick hide 
began to feel it, and he was thoroughly awakened to 
the sense of his want of devotion and sympathy for 
his master in the usurping of even his master’s bed. 
Susi looked very much crestfallen after this expose of 
his infirmity before the “ little master,” as I was 
called. 
The next day at dusk — Mukamba having come to bid 
us good-bye, and requested that as soon as we reached 
