TJie Sandeh Chiefs. 349 clothiug from our stores. He was shown the best Arab clothes, but said he wished to be dressed hke a Frank, for he was no JeUibba. Then he wished to see a cannon fired, and I hastened to gratify him, but when the piece went off he fell to the ground from fear.

" I also clothed his following, consisting of more than fifty persons, and after being feasted for several days, Mdarama made up his mind to go. On leaving he said, ' I will submit to you, and I desire that you send me a person to whose care I can entrust all the ivory found in my country. To jrove my sincerity, I am ready to give up to you about seven hundred guns taken from the Arabs when they invaded my territory.'

" I accepted the ivory, but advised him to keep the arms, because it was difficult to foresee how events might turn out, and it might happen that the Arabs would later on attempt / to carry their raids into his states. When Mdarama left, he assured me that his brother Mbio, and their relation Mofio, would do as much as himself, and, having chosen one of my confidants to accompany him, he returned to his kingdom.

" A few weeks later Mdarama let me know that he had sent one thousand three hundred of Mbio's negroes to Dem Suleiman, laden with ivory, and at the same time he sent me a present of a male and female ape. These apes, when they reached my residence, w*ere recognized by Dr. Junker to be chimpanzees, but the Arabs said they were real gorillas.i " Mdarama told me that his brother Mbio would also have visited me, had not the advanced season prevented him, and assured me that both his country and that of his brother's were open to me, and that Mbio desired to make m}' personal acquaintance.

' They were chinipauzees. Tlie j;orilla is onh found much farther west.