I hoped he would accept our present from Bombay, and give us leave to depart for Gani.

The Wakungu, who thought, as well as ourselves, that we were in nothing better than a prison, hurried off with the message, and soon returned with a message from their king that he was busily engaged decorating his palace to give us a triumphant reception; for he was anxious to pay us more respect than anybody who had ever visited him before.

We should have seen him yesterday, only that it rained; and, as a precaution against our meeting being broken up, a shed was being built.

He could not hear of our leaving the country without seeing him.
18th .-- At last we were summoned to attend the king's levee; but the suspicious creature wished his officers to inspect the things we had brought for him before we went there.

Here was another hitch.