The way the English make lasting friendships is done either by the expressions of their hearts, or by the exchange of some trifles, as keepsakes; and now, as I had given Kamrasi some specimens of English manufacture, he might give me a horn, or anything else he chose, which I could show to my friends, so as to keep him in recollection all my life.
The Kamraviona, before leaving, said, for our information, that a robbery had occurred in the palace last night; for this morning, when Kamrasi went to inspect his Mzungu (the block-tin box), which he had forgotten to lock, he found all his beads had been stolen.

After sniffing round among the various wives, he smelt the biggest one to be the culprit, and turned the beads out of her possession.

Deputies came in the evening with a pot of pombe and small screw of butter, to tell me some Gani people had just arrived, bringing information that the vessel at Gani had left to go down the river; but when intelligence reached the vessel of the approach of my men they turned and came back again.

Bombay was well feasted on the road by Kamrasi's people, receiving eight cows from one and two cows from another.
8th and 9th .-- We had a summons to attend at the Kafu palace with the medicine-chest, a few select persons only to be present.

It rained so much on the 8th as to stop the visit, but we went next day.