250 Preparations for the March. 
to witness an approach to that virtue. The chief 
will, it is true, quarrel with you if his house be 
passed without a visit; but his object in taking 
you in is to make all he can of you. If a purse be 
pulled out, he waxes wroth, because he wishes to 
secure at once the reputation of generosity and 
the profits of a present doubling the worth of a 
regular “addition.” When Gidi Mavunga rose 
from his meal, the elder dependants took his place ; 
the junior bipeds followed, and the remnants were 
thrown to the quadrupeds. It was a fair copy in 
black of a baronial and mediaeval life. 
The dogs were not neglected during the meal; 
but over-eagerness was repressed by a stout 
truncheon lying handily near the old negro Jarl. 
The animals are small and stunted, long-nosed 
and crooked-limbed, with curly tails often cut, 
sharp ears which show that they have not lost the 
use of the erecting muscles, and so far wild that 
they cannot bark. The colour is either black and 
white or yellow and white, as in Stambul and 
India. Overrun with ticks and foul with mange, 
they are too broken-spirited to rob, except by 
secretly sneaking into the huts, and, however 
often beaten off, they return to the charge like 
sitting hens. The people prize these wretched 
tikes, because they are ever ready to worry a 
stranger, and are useful in driving game from the 
bush. Yet they barbarously ill-treat them. The 
