We saw no evidence of any animals besides; and, on coming to the villages beyond this, we often saw boys and girls engaged in digging up these tiny quadrupeds.
Katende sent for me on the day following our arrival, and, being quite willing to visit him, I walked, for this purpose, about three miles from our encampment.

When we approached the village we were desired to enter a hut, and, as it was raining at the time, we did so.

After a long time spent in giving and receiving messages from the great man, we were told that he wanted either a man, a tusk, beads, copper rings, or a shell, as payment for leave to pass through his country.

No one, we were assured, was allowed that liberty, or even to behold him, without something of the sort being presented.

Having humbly explained our circumstances, and that he could not expect to "catch a humble cow by the horns"-- a proverb similar to ours that "you can't draw milk out of a stone"-- we were told to go home, and he would speak again to us next day.