2 7 o DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xm. 



what would have been only sufficient for the three whites, 

 and leave the rest, thus sending "the idle, ungrateful 

 poor" supperless to bed. But this was not his way. 

 The blacks were thought of in hunting as well as the 

 whites. "It is only by continuance in well-doing," he 

 says, " even to the length of what the worldly-wise call 

 weakness, that the conviction is produced anywhere, 

 that our motives are high enough to secure sincere 

 respect." 



As they proceeded, some of his old acquaintances 

 reappeared, notably Mpende, who had given him such a 

 threatening reception, but had now learned that he 

 belonged to a tribe " that loved the black man and did 

 not make slaves." A chief named Pangola appeared, at 

 first tipsy and talkative, demanding a rifle, and next 

 morning, just as they were beginning divine service, 

 reappeared sober to press his request. Among the 

 Baenda-Pezi, or Go-Nakeds, whose only clothing is a 

 coat of red ochre, a noble specimen of the race appeared 

 in full dress, consisting of a long tobacco-pipe, and 

 brought a handsome present. 



The country bore the usual traces of the results of 

 African warfare. At times a clever chief stands up, who 

 brings large tracts under his dominion ; at his death his 

 empire dissolves, and a fresh series of desolating wars 

 ensues. In one region which was once studded with 

 villages, they walked a whole week without meeting 

 any one. A European colony, he was sure, would be 

 invaluable for constraining the tribes to live in peace. 

 " Thousands of industrious natives would gladly settle 

 round it, and engage in that peaceful pursuit of agricul- 

 ture and trade of which they are so fond, and, undistracted 

 by wars and rumours of wars, might listen to the purifying 

 and ennobling truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ." 

 At Zumbo, the most picturesque site in the country, they 

 saw the ruins of Jesuit missions, reminding them that 



