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help arrived, and he was released from his state of 
bondage. He had just had a most threatening visit 
from a noisy crowd of natives, when the messengers 
he had sent returned from Tati with all that he 
had asked for. After relating in his Journal the 
incidents of this unpleasant interview, he thus con- 
cludes the story : — • 
"They left me," he says, "the noisy crew ; and 
still, though I felt relieved, a gloom hovered over 
my feelings, and I lay down to rest. It was then 
with delight indeed that Maclinwon's announce- 
ment, 'incolo' (waggon), broke on my ears, and 
that, rushing out, I beheld Klaas driving a waggon 
to my scherm. True enough. Brown had managed 
to procure an old waggon to help me out, sending 
me also a wheel of the Scotch cart and four oxen, to 
ensure my having sufficient. There was a long 
letter from him, and four newspapers sent for me 
from England, with news of letters from home 
awaiting me at Tati." 
This was indeed a welcome release to the 
traveller from his present troubles ; but, with such 
information as he now possessed regarding the 
period and duration of the healthy season for visiting 
the Zambesi, he felt that by this time it was too late 
for him to attempt to reach the river, and that, for 
the present at all events, he must abandon the idea 
of getting there. 
On the loth of September, therefore, he once 
more unwillingly started back on the return journey 
to Tati, where he arrived on the i8th, to find, with 
