safari, and we saw many a glorious sunrise, and his elders were usually drawn up to 
But as noon approached it grew very hot, receive me at the gate, bowing, clapping 
under the glare of the brazen equatorial their hands, and uttering their long-drawn 
sun, and we were always glad when we ap- e-h-h-s; and often banana saplings or 
proached our new camp, with its grass- branches would be stuck in the ground to 
strewn ground, its wickerwork fence, and form avenues of approach, and the fence 
cool, open rest house. The local sub-chief and rest house might be decorated with 
flowers of many.kinds. 
Sometimes we were met 
with music, on instru¬ 
ments of one string, of 
three strings, of ten 
strings—rudimentary 
fiddles and harps; and 
there was a much more 
complicated instrument, 
big and cumbrous, made 
of bars of wood placed 
on two banana stems, 
the bars being struck 
with a hammer, as if 
they were keys; its tones 
were deep and good. 
Along the road we did 
not see habitations or 
people; but continually 
there led away from it, 
twisting through the tall 
grass and the bush jun¬ 
gles, native paths, the 
earth beaten brown and 
hard by countless bare 
feet; and these, crossing 
and recrossing in a net- 
