2U ARKANGE MY PACKS. [chap. viii. 



without regret ; for, so long as he has a master at all, 

 the primary want of his being is satisfied. A man is 

 "given" either for a term or for ever; and it was on 

 this tenure that I held several of my men. Swartboy 

 gave me his henchman ; Kahikene, a cattle-watcher ; 

 Mr. Hahn, a very useful man, Kambanya. As a 

 definition of the phrase " giving a man," I should 

 say it meant " making over to another whatever 

 influence one possessed over a savage ; the indi- 

 vidual who is given not being compelled, but being 

 passive." 



Before starting on my return I bought as much corn 

 as I could carry back, which also proved to be exactly 

 as much as I could buy with my stock of beads. I 

 knew by this time pretty well what weights the 

 drfferent oxen could carry, and arranged their saddle- 

 bags accordingly. I always carried a couple of spring 

 balances with me when on ride-oxen, and as they each 

 marked up to forty pounds, by using the two together 

 I could weigh up to eighty pounds, which was as 

 much as I ever wanted on this occasion, though 

 afterwards when ivory had to be carried I was put to 

 shifts for weighing it. It saves infinite trouble in 

 packing to have the two saddle-bags of exactly the same 

 weight, and I am sure that no practice will train tlie 

 hand to judge with certainty whether they are so ; a 

 small heavy thing always feels lighter than its real 

 weight, and a bulky tiling heavier. I have constantly 

 tested the guesses that practised muleteers and camel- 

 drivers have made of the weights of things, and often 

 convicted them of great mistakes. In my waggon I 



