This interview pleased the Makololo extremely.
Every one remarked the serious deportment of the Makololo.

They viewed the large stone houses and churches in the vicinity of the great ocean with awe.

A house with two stories was, until now, beyond their comprehension.

In explanation of this strange thing, I had always been obliged to use the word for hut; and as huts are constructed by the poles being let into the earth, they never could comprehend how the poles of one hut could be founded upon the roof of another, or how men could live in the upper story, with the conical roof of the lower one in the middle.

Some Makololo, who had visited my little house at Kolobeng, in trying to describe it to their countrymen at Linyanti, said, "It is not a hut; it is a mountain with several caves in it." Commander Bedingfeld and Captain Skene invited them to visit their vessels, the "Pluto" and "Philomel".