"We rode away amid the 'Sais' accompanied by upright thunder, of the girls and children of the Mahalwe. The girls (there are 3 or them about 17 yrs old & all quite putty) being in the outer parts near Sium dondy's but I have not yet been able to determine their relations- ships. Their well-shaped faces, we always ready throw into a smile, and for myself they seem unnaturally clean. They wear cunning little clothes caps and have all the feminine varieties which we might expect even in debutantes of our own country. They seem greatly interested in our charms for them, & at the same and from the absence at night from when I was told the two were at Sium dondy's quite a wild word flirtation had been going on. One could hardly but imagine a more perfect air - than the one which we rode away with the jungle hunters. The air had the first sharp tinges of autumn freshness and the sky was as blue as the waters of a tropic sea. We had expected to make a long month but such was not the plan.