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King. I found my house undisturbed, all my valuables | 
and goods safe, and my live stock on hand and in good 
condition, and made old Rinkimongani very proud by 
expressing my satisfaction. He said, “ Now you tell me 
what I stole?” And King Ranpano exclaimed, “‘ Ah! we 
don’t steal from our white man. Weare people, we have 
a heart that feels, we love our white man, for he is the 
first that ever came to live among us.” 
And now I must say good-by again to you; and I - 
wish that, in reading this book, you may think that you 
have been travelling with me for a while in the great. 
forests of the Equatorial regions of Africa. I have many 
more things to say to you, but will wait for another year 
before I do so. 
I hope that I have been able to instruct as well as to 
amuse you, and that, as the years go by, and you become 
men and women, you may remember some of the stories 
I have told you. Some of you, no doubt, have seen me, 
while others do not know me. My great wish is that 
you may think kindly of me, and remember him who 
will always be happy to call himself the boys’ and girls’ 
~ friend. 
