Other fetishes of a more common sort were to be met at every step, lines of worsted and cotton stretched across the road, rags hung upon bushes, and other negro trumperies of the same kind.
Five days later the Naval Brigade, with Wood's regiment and Rait's battery, marched into Queesa, and the same afternoon the whole marched forward to Fomana, the capital of Adansee, situated half a mile only from Queesa.

This was a large town capable of containing some seven or eight thousand inhabitants.

The architecture was similar to that of Queesa, but the king's palace was a large structure covering a considerable extent of ground.

Here were the apartments of the king himself, of his wives, the fetish room, and the room for execution, still smelling horribly of the blood with which the floor and walls were sprinkled.

The first and largest court of the palace had really an imposing effect.