I had enjoyed my residence in Karague, his intellectual conversations and his kind hospitality, all of which I should record in my books to hand down to posterity; but if he would give me a cow's horn, I would keep it as a trophy of the happy days I had spent in his country.

He gave me one, measuring 3 feet 5 inches in length, and 18 3/4 inches in circumference at the base.

He then offered me a large sheet, made up of a patchwork of very small N'yera antelope skins, most exquisitely cured and sewn.

This I rejected, as he told me it had been given to himself, explaining that we prided ourselves on never parting with the gifts of a friend; and this speech tickled his fancy so much, that he said he never would part with anything I gave him.
8th and 9th .-- The 8th went off much in the usual way, by my calling on the king, when I gave him a pack of playing-cards, which he put into his curiosity-box.

He explained to me, at my request, what sort of things he would like any future visitors to bring him--a piece of gold and silver embroidery; but, before anything else, I found he would like to have toys--such as Yankee clocks with the face in a man's stomach, to wind up behind, his eyes rolling with every beat of the pendulum; or a china-cow milk-pot, a jack-in-the-box, models of men, carriages, and horses--all animals in fact, and railways in particular.
On the 9th I went out shooting, as Rumanika, with his usual politeness, on hearing my desire to kill some rhinoceros, ordered his sons to conduct the filed for me.