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when a little boy, and the tribe in which be was a captive 

 had migrated to the country near Tete; he had travelled 

 along both banks of the Zambesi several times, and was 

 intimately acquainted with the dialects spoken there. I 

 found him to be a person of great prudence and sound 

 judgment, and his subsequent loss at the Mauritius has 

 been, ever since, a source of sincere regret. He at once 

 recommended our keeping well away from the river, on 

 account of the tsetse and rocky country, assigning also as 

 a reason for it that the Leeambye beyond the falls turns 

 round to the N.N.E. Mamire, who had married the mother 

 of Sekeletu, on coming to bid me farewell before starting, 

 said, "You are now going among people who cannot be 

 trusted, because we have used them badly ; but you go with 

 a dhTerent message from any they ever heard before, and 

 Jesus will be with you and help you, though among enemies; 

 and if he. carries you safely, and brings you and Ma Kobert 

 back again, I shall say he has bestowed a great favor upon 

 me. May we obtain a path whereby we may visit and be 

 visited by other tribes and by white men !" On telling 

 him my fears that he was still inclined to follow the old 

 marauding system, which prevented intercourse, and that 

 he, from his influential position, was especially guilty in the 

 late forays, he acknowledged all rather too freely for my 

 taste, but seemed quite aware that the old system was far 

 from right. Mentioning my inability to pay the men who 

 were to accompany me, he replied, "A man wishes, of 

 course, to appear among his friends, after a long absence, 

 with something of his own to show : the whole of the 

 ivory in the country is yours, so you must take as much as 

 you can, and Sekeletu will furnish men to carry it." These 

 remarks of Mamire are quoted literally, in order to show 

 the state of mind of the most influential in the tribe. And, 

 as I wish to give the reader a fair idea of the other side of 

 the question as well, it may be mentioned that Motibo 

 parried the imputation of the guilt of marauding by every 

 possible subterfuge. He would not admit that they had 



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