CHIEF MANDARA. 
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Mandara is a very fine specimen of the black savage, 
big and well-proportioned, though rather inclined to 
he fat. Iiis height is about six feet, and a broad and 
not ill-natured countenance displays signs of much 
intelligence, though its beauty is somewhat impaired 
by the loss of one eye ; but the sharpness and cunning 
of the other gave me the impression he could see as far 
through most things as any other native with two. lie 
was dressed simply in a loose robe of American sheet¬ 
ing dyed light red, and only wore a few ornaments in 
the way of necklaces and ear-rings ; but he was crowned 
with an old shooting-cap about three sizes too small, 
which, however comical in effect to us, was doubtless 
a fitting emblem of royalty to his subjects. Having- 
made it all up with Martin, he became quite cheerful, 
laughing, chatting, and expectorating, in evidence of 
thorough good-humour. I was told that when he was 
in one of his “ moods ” he hardly noticed visitors, but 
kept up an animated conversation with his personal 
suite. After an hour’s interview we bade him “good¬ 
bye,” and departed with the promise of his return visit 
next day. During the afternoon he sent us a present 
of a white goat, and Martin went round to convey our 
personal thajuks, but discovered he was suffering from 
the full effect of his favourite pomhe. 
Mr. Fitch returned with us to our camp, and I had a 
long conversation with him, during which I learnt a 
good many interesting facts about the people of Modi 
and their chief. Mandara has a great opinion of his 
importance, and is somewhat tyrannical with his own 
