Ha, Ha, Ha!" I Was Not In A Humour To Enjoy His Attempts At Facetiousness; I Therefore Told Him, That He Had Behaved Disgracefully And Meanly, And That I Should Publish His Character Among The Adjoining Tribes As Below That Of The Most Petty Chief That I Had Ever Seen.

"Never mind," he replied, "it's all over now; you really are thin, both of you; - it was your own fault; why did you not agree to fight Fowooka?

You should have been supplied with fat cows and milk and butter, had you behaved well. I will have my men ready to attack Fowooka tomorrow; - the Turks have ten men; you have thirteen; thirteen and ten make twenty-three; - you shall be carried if you can't walk, and we will give Fowooka no chance - he must be killed - only kill him, and MY BROTHER will give you half of his kingdom." He continued, "You shall have supplies tomorrow; I will go to my brother, who is the great M'Kammaa Kamrasi, and he will send you all you require. I am a little man, he is a big one; I have nothing; he has everything, and he longs to see you; you must go to him directly, he lives close by." I hardly knew whether he was drunk or sober - "my brother the great M'Kamma Kamrasi!" I felt bewildered with astonishment: then, "If you are not Kamrasi, pray who are you ?" I asked. "Who am I?" he replied, "ha, ha, ha! that's very good; who am I?

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