chap. xv. FAREWELL VISIT FROM PRINCE AND PRINCESS. 417 particular friends; but when the sun became too high, and the light too strong, I was obliged to cease. I insert a number of engravings of these portraits, with a view of showing the remarkable heads and features of the Hova race. Soon afterwards I received a note to say that as the coming night would be the last I should spend at the capital, the prince and princess would come at half-past six o’clock to spend the evening with me. In the afternoon a note came from Prince Eamboasalama, the nephew of the queen, and the cousin of the prince, stating that he would be very glad if I would take the likeness of his daughter; but I was obliged to reply that, much to my regret, my materials were all packed, and it was then too late for me to comply with his wishes. Soon after six o’clock my English friend, the queen’s secre tary, came, and at the time they had specified, the prince and princess, with the adopted daughter of the latter, came, at tended by two or three female domestics. They wore plain dresses of rich satin, and costly necklaces. That of the young princess was of small pearls. Over their dresses they wore beautiful white lambas, bordered with five broad stripes of scarlet and green satin. When they took their seats at my plainly furnished table, I apologised on account of most of my things being packed up; but they both assured me it was not for the sake of what I could set before them, but from the friendship of their hearts, that they desired to come and spend the last evening with me. In partaking of my evening refreshment, the ladies appeared to prefer some light crisp biscuits with their tea, and declined the ham, the diviners having prohibited the use of the flesh of hogs within the capital; but the prince and his companions manifested no scruples on that head. The prince having ordered his band to attend, it was stationed in the yard outside, and played at intervals during the evening. My visitors frequently repeated their expressions of regret