She and her attendants had all small, neat features.

I had been sitting with Hamees, and now rose up and went away; as I passed him, he spoke thus to himself: "Hamees Wadim Tagh! see to what you have brought yourself!!" _15th September, 1867._--A guide had come from Nsama to take us to the countries beyond his territory.

Hamees set off this morning with his new wife to his father-in-law, but was soon met by two messengers, who said that he was not to come yet.

We now sent for all the people who were out to go west or north-west without reference to Nsama.
_16th-18th September, 1867._--Hamidi went to Nsama to try and get guides, but he would not let him come into his stockade unless he came up to it without either gun or sword.

Hamidi would not go in on these conditions, but Nsama promised guides, and they came after a visit by Hamees to Nsama, which he paid without telling any of us: he is evidently ashamed of his father-in-law.
Those Arabs who despair of ivory invest their remaining beads and cloth in slaves.
_20th September, 1867._--I had resolved to go to Nsama's, and thence to Moero to-day, but Hamees sent to say that men had come, and we were all to go with them on the 22nd.