We started from Souakim, and after five days' voyage we arrived at Suez.

Landing from the steamer, I once more found myself in an English hotel.
The hotel was thronged with passengers to India, with rosy, blooming English ladies and crowds of my own countrymen.

I felt inclined to talk to everybody.

Never was I so in love with my own countrymen and women; but they (I mean the ladies) all had large balls of hair at the backs of their heads! What an extraordinary change! I called Richarn, my pet savage from the heart of Africa, to admire them.

"Now, Richarn, look at them!" I said.