glishman was satisfied with that, but I am sure apoplexy of
either the heat or thundering variety has him by now.

Before the store building squatted another group of savages. Perhaps
in time one of the lot expected to buy something; or possibly they just
sat. Nobody but a storekeeper would ever have time to find out. Such
is the native way. The storekeeper in this case was named John. Besides
being storekeeper, he had charge of the issuing of all the house
supplies, and those for the white men's mess; he must do all the
worrying about the upper class natives; he must occasionally kill a
buck for the meat supply; and he must be prepared to take out any stray
tenderfeet that happen along during McMillan's absence, and persuade
them that they are mighty hunters. His domain was a fascinating place,
for it contained everything from pianola parts to patent washstands. The
next best equipped place of the kind I know of is the property room of a
moving picture company.

We went to mail a letter, and found the postmaster to be a
gentle-voiced, polite little Hindu, who greeted us smilingly,
and attempted to conceal a work of art. We insisted; whereupon he
deprecatingly drew forth a copy of a newspaper cartoon having to do with
Colonel Roosevelt's visit. It was copied with mathematical exactness,
and highly coloured in a manner to throw into profound melancholy
the chauffeur of a coloured supplement press. We admired and praised;
whereupon, still shyly, he produced more, and yet again more copies
of the same cartoon. When we left, he was reseating himself to the
painstaking valueless labour with which he filled his days. Three times
a week such mail as Juja gets comes in via native runner. We saw the
latter, a splendid figure, almost naked, loping easily, his little
bundle held before him.

Down past the office and dispensary we strolled, by the comfortable,
airy, white man's clubhouse. The headman of the native population passed
us with a dignified salute; a fine upstanding deep-chested man, with a
lofty air of fierce pride. He and his handful of soldiers alone of the
natives, except the Somalis and syces, dwelt within the compound in
a group of huts near the gate. There when off duty they might be seen
polishing their arms, or chatting with their women. The latter were
ladies of leisure, with wonderful chignons, much jewelery, and patterned
Mericani wrapped gracefully about their pretty figures.

By the time we had seen all