“Yesterday we go walk and walk, and all time we go look for top them high house; O Master, they be plenty fine past house of Kano. _Them house tall plenty, plenty; but to-day neck be sick_. Only way man fit go look for up proper be for him lie down on road [street] same same as when sleep for camp.” The endless streets lined with innumerable houses were further source of wonderment. On one occasion, after walking for an hour or so through a maze of closely built thoroughfares, they came out into Regent’s Park to exclaim: “Ah! now we go look _the desert of London_; this ground no have house for him.” In the streets they expressed surprise that everyone ate indoors and that no one was seen sitting down to food by the side of the open thoroughfare, as was common enough in their own country. The huge population of the metropolis also came in for much comment, and they speedily realised that there were more people in London than in the whole of Kano emirate. [Illustration: GLOVER; BUCHANAN BACK TO CIVILISED CLOTHES] One day, Ali informed me that: “There be plenty plenty people for this town who all be different, and who sit and say nothing.” This I could not comprehend, until slowly it dawned on me that he was referring to _the monuments of London—“The people who sit and say nothing.”_ While on the subject of monuments, the first silver currency in Nigeria had the head of Queen Victoria on the one side, and hence the shilling became widely known among the Hausa natives as _Silli mai mammie_ (the shilling that has the mother). One day, when passing Buckingham Palace, Ali and Sakari came in view of the monument of Queen Victoria. At once they recognised the head, and excitedly pointed and exclaimed: “Look there! It is the lady of the shilling.” I doubt if anyone could have guessed what would be the three very first things to strike deeply upon the imaginations of Ali and Sakari when they first entered London. They were: _Policemen in uniform, wax models, and babies in perambulators_. The police were: “Magic men, who, when they go put up hand, they fit go stop all the people.” Wax models: “English magic. This people savvy how to make woman same same for live.” Babies in perambulators were remarkable because of the novelty of seeing infants carefully wheeled “in small motor-car” with a nurse in attendance, for in their own country their youngsters are carried on the backs of the womenfolk, or more or less left to take their chance of life by the hut doors. Of all they saw, then and thereafter, Ali and Sakari frankly concluded, times without number: “Ki! White men go catch plenty plenty sense! All savvy work plenty fine. They be kings of work—all!” “All the people go catch money for this country. It plenty sweet past our country.” And these were impressions they eventually carried back to spread far afield. And in this way, all unbeknown, the character of a nation may sometimes go forth broadcast before the world.