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was the case in Uganda, and there were numbers 

 of locusts. The female lays all her eggs close 

 together, and the young ones at first are unable 

 to fly, and only gradually spread out in a circle 

 from their birthplace till they unite with those 

 from another female, and form a flight. 



The moral character of these natives seems high. 

 Mr. W. P. Johnston mentions that a woman and 

 boy became slaves of their own free will in order 

 to redeem their chief. 



The manner in which native caravans were sent 

 off with only a native in charge, or occasionally 

 a single man sent with a load for 240 miles, filled 

 me with astonishment. 



It did eventually occur to one body of 43 

 Angoni that there was no reason whatever 

 why they should not walk off into the bush with 

 their loads ; this would probably have made every 

 man of them as rich as their own chief. They 

 carried out this brilliant idea, probably introduced 

 to them by some half-caste, but the loads have, 

 I believe, been all recovered through their chief 

 expostulating with them. 



I am afraid difficulties with the natives are not 

 by any means finished. 



All along the eastern or Portuguese border are 

 a number of chiefs, more or less under Arab in- 

 fluence and fond of slave-dealing, who not un- 

 naturally detest the white man. These are 

 Makanjila, Zarafi, Mponda, Kawinga, Matapwiri, 



