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of Zanzibar masons and carpenters, "mafundi," were employed upon it. Mirambo received us courteously in a small circular hut which he used as a general reception-room for his guests, and where he transacted business. The walls were lined with quivers full of poisoned arrows. The chief was dressed in a short English-made coat and the customary native loin-cloth, but the material was richer than that usually worn. He was a tall, fine-looking man, with a good, clever face. After ordering his attendants to bring us stools to sit upon and a large calabash of fresh milk, the conversation began — through an interpreter, of course. He asked us where we were going, and when he understood it was to Uganda, he said, "Ah, truly your beards will have grown long e'er you return." What else we discoursed of I cannot recall ; but after talking for about half an hour, and renewing his promise of protection and help, he bade us farewell.

The contrast between Mirambo and Mutesa — the two greatest chiefs whom I met with during my sojourn in Central Africa — was most striking in every particular. Mirambo, kindly and courteous to all, frank and friendly with strangers, living as a plain man among his fellows, although so much greater than they in all that makes men great. Mutesa, kindly too, but formal, fearful of his dignity, crafty, suspicious, and capable of acts so vile and foul that they may only be hinted at, surrounded by an abject court, an object of grovelling adoration to slavish thousands, but really