He had good taste in all his domestic arrangements, and seemed to be a good man.

He showed great kindness to me on my arrival at Chitimbwa's.
_11th May, 1872._--A serpent of dark olive colour was found dead at my door this morning, probably killed by a cat.

Puss approaches very cautiously, and strikes her claws into the head with a blow delivered as quick as lightning; then holds the head down with both paws, heedless of the wriggling mass of coils behind it; she then bites the neck and leaves it, looking with interest to the disfigured head, as if she knew that therein had lain the hidden power of mischief.

She seems to possess a little of the nature of the _Ichneumon_, which was sacred in Egypt from its destroying serpents.

The serpent is in pursuit of mice when killed by puss.
_12th May, 1872._--Singeri, the headman of the Baganda here, offered me a cow and calf yesterday, but I declined, as we were strangers both, and this is too much for me to take.