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bring them back.^ Manyami insisted on their being 
paid beforehand, and intimated that they might not 
carry out their message properly unless I paid them. 
I was angry at their exorbitance, one demanding 
MANYAMl'S ATTENDANT. 
two coils of wire ; to the other I gave half a bar of 
lead. The old fellow hung about begging. Women 
brought mealies and Kafir corn. Milk and beer 
were also brought, and I told them to bring Kafir 
corn meal next day, which they did, but were very 
fanciful in their demands, one wanting beads, another 
must have brass wire, another a handkerchief, and 
so on. I find they don't care for mirrors ; look at 
themselves, and are highly amused, but refuse them 
^ Mr. Fairbairn was agent at the King's Town for a Mr. Cruick- 
sliank, with whom Frank Gates had had business deahngs at 
Bamangwato. 
