Joy of Arabs at Mohamad bin Saleh's freedom.

Again ill with fever.

Stories of underground dwellings.
_24th November, 1867._--We were called to be presented to Casembe in a grand reception.
The present Casembe has a heavy uninteresting countenance, without beard or whiskers, and somewhat of the Chinese type, and his eyes have an outward squint.

He smiled but once during the day, and that was pleasant enough, though the cropped ears and lopped hands, with human skulls at the gate, made me indisposed to look on anything with favour.

His principal wife came with her attendants, after he had departed, to look at the Englishman (Moenge-rese).