One of his men accompanied the visitors back to the boats, and saw Petherick, who took the ivory and rejected the women.
10th .-- At 2 p.m.we were called by Kamrasi to visit him at the Kafu palace again, and requested to bring a lot of medicines tied up in various coloured cloths, so that he might know what to select for different ailments.

We repaired there as before, putting the medicines into the sextand-stand box, and found him lying at full length on the platform of his throne, with a glass-bead necklace of various colours, and a charm tied on his left arm.

Nobody was allowed to be present at our interview.

The medicines, four varieties, were weighed out into ten doses each, and their uses and effects explained.

He begged for four bottles to put them in, till he was laughed out of it by our saying he required forty bottles; for if the powders were mixed, how could he separate them again?
And to keep his mind from the begging tack, which he was getting alarmingly near, I said, "Now I have given you these things because you would insist on having them.