274 TIMEHRI. 
When, the following morning, quite refreshed from the 
effe€ts of fatigue and black draught, I was again ready for 
the start, all but two of my carriers were in fairly good: 
condition and had evidently kept the promise of modera- me 
tion which they had made to me. And even the two 
defaulters were a man and his wife who had never from 
the first held out hopes of coming the whole distance 
with me, and it is quite possible that they felt themselves. 
absolved by this fa€t from the moderation of the others. 
But two new porters had to be found for the abandoned 
loads. One of the Quonga men at once volunteered ; 
but it seemed for a few minutes that it might be difficult’ 
to get a second volunteer. There was a magnificently 
built young giant there—on measuring him afterward 1 
found that his height was only five feet nine inches; but: 
that is gigantic for a-Redman—whom I was very anxious 
to take with me. From the well-cared-for look of his’ 
scrap of cloth, his few patches of paint, and of his beads 
and necklace of teeth, it was evident that he thought 
highly of himself; and, to judge from the bearing of his’ 
fellows toward him this self respeét did not seem un- 
warranted. At first he laughingly declined my invitation, 
saying that the load was too heavy for him; then, to my 
horror, and for the only time that this special trial ever 
befell me, he quietly took the pipe from between my lips, 
put it in his own mouth, smoked it in meditative fashion 
for a minute or two, put it back into my mouth, unslung 
his hammock, put this and my bundle on his back, and, | 
without a word to his family or a word of bargain with 
me, he ran merrily down the hill and so began a journey’ 
with me which lasted for some weeks. Such instances 
help to give an idea of the happy freedom from care and. 
