Captain Nelson is a fine fellow, and without the ghost of a hobby: he is the same all round, and at all hours.
Stairs, of the Royal Engineers, is a splendid fellow, painstaking, ready, thoughtful, and industrious, and is an invaluable addition to our staff.
Jameson is still the nice fellow we saw; there is not an atom of change in him. He is sociable and good.
Bonny is the soldier. He is not initiative. He seems to have been under a martinet's drill.
March 16th, 1887.
At Cape Town, Tippu-Tib, after remarking the prosperity and business stir of the city, and hearing its history from me, said that he formerly had thought all white men to be fools.
"Really," I said; "Why?"
"That was my opinion."
"Indeed! and what do you think of them now?" I asked.