ing incongruous strikes the mind
Whene'er a barbarous race we find
With shreds of civil life displayed.

There's more of symmetry, however bare,
In what a savage deigns to wear,
In keeping with the scene.
These, each deformed by what he wears,
Like apes that dance at country fairs,
Seemed but a link between."

Dingarn proved to be at Congella, another circular town or kraal, on the
top of a hill. He gave a ready welcome to the Captain, and his
presents--some looking-glasses, a pair of epaulettes, and some coloured
prints, especially full-lengths of George IV. and William IV. The
collection in a place such as Natal then was must have been very hard to
make, but it was very successful, and still more so was the Captain's
presenting himself in his uniform when he went to propose the treaty.
Dingarn said he must look at it before he could do anything else, and
fully appreciated the compliment when the sailor said it was his war
dress, in which he appeared before King William. He agreed to the
treaty, but declared that the English would be the first to break it. The
Captain answered that a true Englishman never broke a treaty, and that
any white man who deceived was not the right sort of Englishman; and the
king responded that "now a great chief was come, to whom he could speak
his heart." Captain Gardiner tried to impress on him that it was the
fear of God that made himself an honourable man, and to persuade him that
the knowledge of the "Book" would make him and his people still greater;
and the next time of meeting set forth an outline of the morality and
promises of Revelation. Dingarn was attentive, and said they were good
words, and that he would hear more of them, but in the meantime Gardiner
must go back to Natal and see that his people kept the treaty. It was a
good deal more than he could do. A Kaffir inkosikase, or female
chieftain, who, with two servants and three children, was fleeing into
Natal at the time of his return, was sent back, with all her companions.
The poor creatures pleaded hard that the Captain would accompany them and
save them, and he returned with them, and interceded for them with all
his might, but soon found they were being starved to death. "Their bonds
must kill them," said Dingarn. A second great effort resulted in a
little food being sent, and a kind of promise that their lives should be
spared; but this was only made to get rid of him, and t