242 x 189 mm. Showing the circular thatched huts at Somoto's Kraal near Fort Victoria which are crowded on both level ground and on the huge granite boulders in the background. "Somoto's Village, by the soft rays of a tropical setting sun, was a picture not soon to be forgotten. In the distance one could dimly discern the forms of dark human beings, walking about uneasily upon the tops of the huge rocks upon which the village is standing ... the small huts of mushroom shape were dotted about upon the rocks wherever a site was available. Reaching the kraal at an early hour next morning, there were some signs of alarm, and certainly the earlier appearance of a white stranger with huge camera and tripod would naturally give rise to some suspicion ... ' (Royal Colonial Institute, 1890-1, p. 317). There is an unidentified European (not positively identified, but probably Francis Balfour, the Pioneer Column's Anglican Chaplain) in the foreground. The photograph was taken about August 20.