666 LOVE AND LAW. 



in their identity, and it should not be forgotten that there is 

 nothing that hinders a coalescence of hearts more effectually 

 than a clamorous assertion of rights. The world will rue the 

 day which adopts a code denning the relative dignity of man 

 and Avoman. Love is not unlawful, but legislation is the death 

 of it. There are rights in love, but no knowledge of them. 

 The spontaneity of all its offerings and concessions is their 

 beauty and blissfulness. Distinctions patronize discord; where 

 there are boundaries there are conflicts ; there cannot be a line 

 drawn between man and woman which does not sever the magic 

 bond of their union. Wives and mothers and daughters and 

 sisters cannot afford to have their guardianship transferred from 

 love to law. The sun of human happiness will have passed its 

 meridian, and a polished barbarism, that dotage of civilization, 

 will be coming on, when human folly allows checks and balances 

 to take the place of free-acting love in the relations of husband 

 and wife. We must not forget that the peculiar glory of civili- 

 zation is in that beautiful and joyous identity of the sexes 

 which finds its prettiest type in the vine-entwined oak. 



The Wanyamwezi have won for themselves quite a reputation 

 by their commercial industry. They are the professional por- 

 ters of East Africa. From days immemorial they have monopo- 

 lized the carrying business. They are everything to the traveller, 

 they take the place of camels, horses, mules, and asses. They 

 are indispensable to the traders and travellers. They are gen- 

 erally found in the various coast villages waiting to be hired for 

 long journeys. " These are the people whom we have seen 

 among the hills of Itawa, in the forests of Lunda, on the banks 

 of the Lualaba, in the w r ilds of Manyuema, on the banks of all 

 the lakes — who are found in the mountains of Karangwah, on 

 the plains of Uvinza, on the barren plateau of Ugogo, in the 

 park lands of Ukonongo, in the swamps of Useguhha, in the 

 defiles of Usegara, in the Wilderness of Ubena, among the pas- 

 toral tribes of the Watuta, trudging along the banks of the 

 Refugi, and in slave-trading Kilwa, everywhere ; weighted with 

 the bales of Zanzibar, containing cottons and domestics from 

 Massachusetts, calicoes from England, prints from Muscat, 

 cloths from Cutch, beads from Germany, and brass wire from 

 Great Britain. In caravans they are docile and tractable, on 



