All the chiefs visited by the Arabs have good substantial square houses built for their accommodation.

Mukate never saw a European before, and everything about us is an immense curiosity to him and to his people.
We had long visits from him.

He tries to extract a laugh out of every remark.

He is darker than the generality of Waiyau, with a full beard trained on the chin, as all the people hereabouts have--Arab fashion.
The courts of his women cover a large space, our house being on one side of them.

I tried to go out that way, but wandered, so the ladies sent a servant to conduct me out in the direction I wished to go, and we found egress by passing through some huts with two doors in them.
_16th September, 1866._--At Mukate's.