ruby liquid that cheers, to be always suave and polite amid the
dismalities of native life in Africa.

After the evening meal, which replenished my failing strength, and
for which I felt the intensest gratitude, the most advanced of the
pupils came forward, to the number of twenty, with brass instruments,
thus forming a full band of music. It rather astonished me to hear
instrumental sounds issue forth in harmony from such woolly-headed
youngsters; to hear well-known French music at this isolated port,
to hear negro boys, that a few months ago knew nothing beyond the
traditions of their ignorant mothers, stand forth and chant
Parisian songs about French valor and glory, with all the
sangfroid of gamins from the purlieus of Saint-Antoine.

I had a most refreshing night's rest, and at dawn I sought out
my camp, with a will to enjoy the new life now commencing. On
counting the animals, two donkeys were missing; and on taking
notes of my African moneys, one coil of No. 6 wire was not to be
found. Everybody had evidently fallen on the ground to sleep,
oblivious of the fact that on the coast there are many dishonest
prowlers at night. Soldiers were despatched to search through
the town and neighbourhood, and Jemadar Esau was apprised of
our loss, and stimulated to discover the animals by the promise
of a reward. Before night one of the missing donkeys was found
outside the town nibbling at manioc-leaves, but the other animal
and the coil of wire were never found.

Among my visitors this first day at Bagamoyo was Ali bin Salim,
a brother of the famous Sayd bin Salim, formerly Ras Kafilah to
Burton and Speke, and subsequently to Speke and Grant. His