Inside, where Casembe honoured me with a grand reception, stands a gigantic hut for Casembe, and a score of small huts for domestics.

The Queen's hut stands behind that of the chief, with a number of small huts also.

Most of the enclosed space is covered with a plantation of cassava, _Curcus purgaris_, and cotton.

Casembe sat before his hut on a equate seat placed on lion and leopard skins.

He was clothed in a coarse blue and white Manchester print edged with red baize, and arranged in large folds so as to look like a crinoline put on wrong side foremost.