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CHAPTER III. 



Chief of the Ajawah Tribe — Danger from the Mavite — Buckley sent 

 back to Chibisa — Mr. Young's Directions to him — A Stroll in the 

 Forest — Tracking a Wounded Buck — Stalking the Buffalo^The 

 Bard's Praises of the Buffalo Hunter — Natives sleeping round their 

 Fires — The Look-out — ^IVIoloka a Thorough Sportsman — ^Disaffection 

 of the Makololos — My Advice to Mr. Young — Working at the Boats 

 — Settling the Disputes of Savages — A Great Difficulty fortunately 

 settled — Moloka's Invaluable Services — Launch of the Search — An 

 Afternoon's Sport — Insolence of the Makololo — Village of Gegara — 

 Ajawahs ready for Battle. 



THE chief of the Ajawah tribe paid us a visit next 

 morning, and told us that he and his people had 

 come here in their flight from the Mavite, who were 

 not far off on the opposite side of the river. He ulso 

 reported that Gegara, a powerful Manganja chief, who 

 holds much of the land on the western bank of the 

 river, and lives at a village bearing his own name, 

 about five miles north of Pamafunda, himself fearing 

 the Mavite, had invited them to come down from the 

 mountains on the east of the Shire, where thev are in 

 force, promising them canoes to cross the river if they 

 would assist him in the total extermination of the 

 Ajaw^ahs. 



