Askar said he went up and looked at it through the glasses, and then ran away.
All this queer information came out at one of our evening camp-fire _shauris_.

The great central camp-fire of a _safari_ is usually in front of the tents of the _msungu_, or white people, and around it in the evening the _msungu_ discuss the adventures of the day and the plans for the morrow.

Each night Abdi, the _neapara_ or head-man, comes up to get his instructions for the next morning, and soon afterward Abdullah, the cook, appears and waits for his orders for the breakfast hour.
Abdullah is the color of night, and no one ever sees him approach or go away.

He simply appears and often stands only a few feet away before any one is aware of his presence.

And even after he speaks, one sees only a row of white teeth looming up five feet above the ground.