Among other things she photographed Fielding's grave, and let loose a small bird which some ruffian had trapped, "because one hates to think of anything in a cage where English people lie buried," the diary stated.

Their tour was thoroughly unconventional, and followed no meditated plan.

The foreign correspondents of the _Times_ decided their route as much as anything else.

Mr.Dalloway wished to look at certain guns, and was of opinion that the African coast is far more unsettled than people at home were inclined to believe.

For these reasons they wanted a slow inquisitive kind of ship, comfortable, for they were bad sailors, but not extravagant, which would stop for a day or two at this port and at that, taking in coal while the Dalloways saw things for themselves.