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ing. Nina in Fairbairn's waggon, as she was also a 
good deal yesterday. She is very fond of him, 
as of other white men ; and is said to wish to marry 
a certain white trader here, who has left for a 
time — hoping, I believe, that she may be married 
when he returns. She can't marry till the king 
takes his wife from whom the future king is to be 
born. His present wives have nothing to do with it 
"John Lee's waggon arrived to day, to my great 
pleasure. I had just returned from visiting the 
king, whom John and I had found standing at the 
entrance of his kraal in a Mackintosh coat. Dick 
and Jacob joined us, and the case of Jacob was 
discussed, Dick also urging the hardship of his 
own dismissal, in which the king seems partly to 
agree, and says it would be better not to leave him 
in his country, but where we can try the case with 
our own laws. At length the king went to his hut, 
saying this case would take a long time, and it was 
not a day to discuss it. Certainly the weather was 
against a law-suit being carried on in the open air. 
In the evening I went again to the king. Lee was 
sitting on the front -box of his waggon, and went 
over my case with him, and thus I got a decision 
quickly. The king said his decision had been that 
I was to take Dick a7id ^d^o-oh, but I had refused to 
do this, so now I must pay the wages of the boy, as 
he considered Jacob, having been brought by Dick, 
was under his protection. I sent for them, and paid 
the money to the king, who promised to keep it for 
Jacob as far as he could, though he said if they left 
