Follow me, white lords." Then he led us round the end of the long shed at which we did not even look, and through the garden on its farther side to the two fine huts I have mentioned.

Here he clapped his hands and a woman appeared, I know not whence.

To her he whispered something.

She went away and presently returned with four or five other women who carried clay lamps filled with oil in which floated a wick of palm fibre.

These lamps were set down in the huts that proved to be very clean and comfortable places, furnished after a fashion with wooden stools and a kind of low table of which the legs were carved to the shape of antelope's feet.