But, still, I will just give a few orders;' and, calling a black man who was loitering about outside in the garden, he went to the window, and addressed him in a Swahili dialect.

The man listened, and then saluted and departed.
'I am sure I devoutly hope that we shall bring no such calamity upon you,' said I, anxiously, when he had taken his seat again.
'Rather than bring those bloodthirsty villains about your ears, we will move on and take our chance.' 'You will do nothing of the sort.

If the Masai come, they come, and there is an end on it; and I think we can give them a pretty warm greeting.

I would not show any man the door for all the Masai in the world.' 'That reminds me,' I said, 'the Consul at Lamu told me that he had had a letter from you, in which you said that a man had arrived here who reported that he had come across a white people in the interior.

Do you think that there was any truth in his story?
I ask, because I have once or twice in my life heard rumours from natives who have come down from the far north of the existence of such a race.' Mr Mackenzie, by way of answer, went out of the room and returned, bringing with him a most curious sword.