It was quite like Africa, the homes were all thatched and the children all naked and the women mostly so.

We took lots of photographs and got on most excellently with the natives who thought we were as funny as we thought them.

Almost every place we go word has been sent ahead and agents and consuls and custom house chaps come out to meet me and ask what they can do.

This is very good and keeps Griscom and Somerset in a proper frame of awe.

But seriously I could not ask for better companions, they are both enormously well informed and polite and full of fun.