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to examine it, and I could not refuse ; so he passed 
all its contents through his hands, uttering constantly 
his curious whistling exclamation, “ Tu, tu, tu! ” 
of admiring astonishment. He asked for nothing but 
an old toothbrush, and though I proffered a new one 
in exchange, he stuck to his first choice, and resolutely 
carried it off. After he had left me his counsellors 
arrived, and the rest of the morning was taken up in 
bargaining about the amount of goods to be paid for a 
building-site and permanent settlement in Mosi. I 
say “permanent settlement” because Mandara de¬ 
clared at the time that this first payment was to be 
the last, and that by coming to terms with his dele¬ 
gates I purchased the land outright and for ever, 
retaining the power to sell or otherwise dispose of it 
to any one else. This first agreement he never repu¬ 
diated, although we afterwards squabbled about the 
extent of my plantations. The price for the land was 
fixed at 210 yards of American sheeting, three dozen 
handkerchiefs, and about thirty pounds of red beads, 
all of which were immediately paid, and we were 
informed that on the morrow we might quit Mandara’s 
presence, and fix on any unoccupied site that pleased 
us. These preliminaries concluded, I began to enjoy 
a little well-earned repose, and settled down to sketch 
some of the scenery, which was lovely enough to move 
even exclamations of admiration from my stolid Zan¬ 
zibaris. Above me, to the north, rose majestically 
the snowy dome of Kibo, 4 untouched by mist, and 
clearly cut against the smalt-blue sky. The middle 
distance was hidden, and the trees of the foreground 
4 Kibo, I might remind you, is the highest summit of Kilima-njaro. 
Kibo means in Ki-caga simply “ whiteness.” We should pronounce 
it “ Iveebaw.” 
