showing us round, and suggesting dances and concerts, got up at ten minutes' notice, for the benefit of my camera. The dancing was more of the character of attitudinising and marching to a monotonous tum-tum, the " orchestra " consisting of various-sized drums and what they call a piano an octave or so of tuned slabs of wood held in order on stretched strings and struck with a wooden hammer. The native music as a rule is only marking time, but I have heard musical melodies accompanying some of their songs. In case of accident or illness there is a well-appointed hospital where the sick are tended. Medical supervision, nurses, and food are supplied free by the Company.
In the compound are to be seen representatives of nearly all the picked types of African tribes. Each tribe keeps to itself, and to go round the buildings skirting the compound is an admirable object-lesson in ethnology. At one point is a group of 38
