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Society has resolved to have a station among the Makololo 

 on the north bank, and another on the south among the 

 Matebele. The Church — Wesleyan, Baptist, and that most 

 energetic body, the Free Church — could each find desirable 

 locations among the Batoka and adjacent tribes. The 

 country is so extensive there is no fear of clashing. All 

 classes of Christians find that sectarian rancor soon dies 

 out when they are working together among and for the 

 real heathen. Only let the healthy locality be searched 

 for and fixed upon, and then there will be free scope to 

 work in the same cause in various directions, without that 

 loss of men which the system of missions on the unhealthy 

 coast entails. While respectfully submitting the plan to 

 these influential societies, I can positively state that, when 

 fairly in the interior, there is perfect security for life and 

 property among a people who will at least listen and 

 reason. 



Eight of my men begged to be allowed to come as far 

 as Kilimane, and, thinking that they would there see the 

 ocean, I consented to their coming, though the food was so 

 scarce in consequence of a dearth that they were compelled 

 to suffer some hunger. They would fain have come far- 

 ther; for when Sekeletu parted with them his orders were 

 that none of them should turn until they had reached Ma 

 Robert and brought her back with them. On my explain- 

 ing the difficulty of crossing the sea, he said, " Wherever 

 you lead, they must follow." As I did not know well how 

 I should get home myself, I advised them to go back to 

 Tete, where food was abundant, and there await my return. 

 I bought a quantity of calico and brass wire with ten of 

 the smaller tusks which we had in our charge, and sent 

 the former back as clothing to those who remained at Tete. 

 As there were still twenty tusks left, I deposited them 

 with Colonel Nunes, that, in the event of any thing hap- 

 pening to prevent my return, the impression might not be 

 produced in the country that I had made away with Seke- 

 letu's ivory. I instructed Colonel Nunes, in case of my 



