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At length the journey was accomplished, and the sorrows of 

 the way, when they were past, were not so dreadful, and pleas- 

 ant memories of little oddities and kindnesses of the people 

 were brighter in the retrospect. One time he had been sepa- 

 rated from his party and thoroughly bewildered in the tall 

 tangled grass ; but though he could not find the old friends he 

 found new ones at the neat little village of a woman named 

 Nyinakasanga (or Mother Kasanga), who was kind as she 

 should be with such a name, and made the stranger welcome 

 until his party found him. Another time a generous matron 

 spread for him a generous banquet, and her dignified husband, 

 when he knew what his spouse had done, signified his approval 

 of her act by saying to the stranger in the heartiest manner, 

 " That is your village : always go that way and eat my provi- 

 sions." 



Once he was sitting by the path, when some wood-cutters 

 came along ; noticing that they turned out of it, he signaled 

 them not to be at that inconvenience, but they insisted, as it 

 would be very impolite in them to allow their shadows to fall 

 on the stranger. 



While on the way he made a notable discovery which some 

 may consider important. It had, he declares, never occurred 

 to him that there could ever be any possibility of turning the 

 fashionable hole through the cartilage of the nose to any account 

 better than that of holding some ornament, and it may be 

 safely assumed that no lady in the land who has supported an 

 analogous fashion since she was a child would ever dream that 

 the rude African would be first to find out that this perforation 

 might be utilized as a needle-holder ; but so it is. Upon the 

 registered observation of a distinguished traveller, we say it, 

 and we hope it may be considered generous in us, to congratu- 

 late our few advocates of ear-boring, that they may at least 

 have the glory of seizing on a valuable suggestion, though it 

 may seem far-fetched. But more than all, as he looked back on 

 the dreary journey, there had been many ills endured ; but he 

 remembered that there lay everywhere concealed in those forests 

 creatures of ferocious passions, and swimming in those rivers 

 were monstrous enemies of man. God had not only inclined 

 the hearts of rude men kindly toward him, but kept him from 



