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which sat the rix men who had « com p u ted me.^ Soon
I heard a buss of noisy «citcmeut at my b“ k ’ “ S e r v e d '
round to see from whence the sound proceeded I observed
a considerable crowd descending the gent e S °p6
towns site In the. thick of the crowd was a very broad,
fat man robed in a mantle, or rather a sheet of a deep blue
i l r The people wore nothing upon them heads, and
little upon their bodies-no M r does esceptmg
when he has become a degenerate civihsed Kaffir,
The Angoni despot approached. X arose, but was imme
A g ■ , 1 „ diatelv pressed down on t+hv,ep rrooccKk boyy myy followers, wbo
appeared to be awe-stricken. There I sat, be and
people also sitting, the distance between us being abo
^ T h e r l could be little doubt as to which of the «Qwdwas
Chikuse for the whole demeanour and bearing
^ a n told me that he was the monarch. Few words were
exchanged, and those were between the headma- w 0
come with me and himself. I wonder ^ hat " ’
■ Chikuse laughed, and seemed rather to scoff at y
deiected appearance ; and when he laughed all his courtier
chimed in I was conyinced that I had given them a big
surprise, if nothing else.
Nevertheless it was a great relief when me
over for I had been bathed in perspiration through
steep ascent to the town, and now, under a stiff breeze from
the eastward, I was becoming chilled..
The king rose and pointed, standing m his place, whil
J o w e d m men to the hut which had been granted to
me—a very small one, only seven feet m diameter.
■ A description of the utter loneliness of my condition at
^ r numtmn. Every