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Raids like that of Sequaslia, — also of Siinoeus, who carried his 

 foray up the river as far as Kariba, — and many others, have 

 exactly the same effect as the normal native policy already 

 mentioned : one tract of country is devastated after another, 

 and the slave-hunter attains great wealth and influence. 

 Pereira, the founder of Zumbo, gloried in being called " the 

 Terror." If the scourge is not fleeced by some needy Governor, 

 his wealth is usually scattered to the winds by the children 

 of mixed breed who succeed him. Can it be that the Mis- 

 sionaries of old, like many good men formerly among ourselves, 

 tolerated this system of slave-making, which inevitably leads 

 to "warfare, and thus failed to obtain influence over the 

 natives by not introducing another policy than that which 

 had prevailed for ages before they came ? 



We continued our journey on the 28th of June. Game 

 was extremely abundant, and there were many lions. Mbia 

 drove one off from his feast on a wild pig, and appropriated 

 what remained of the pork to his own use. Lions are 

 particularly fond of the flesh of wild pigs and zebras, and 

 contrive to kill a large number of these animals. In the 

 afternoon we arrived at the village of the female Chief, 

 Ma-mburuma, but she herself was now living on the oppo- 

 site side of the river. Some of her people called, and said 

 she had been frightened by seeing her son and other 

 children killed by Sequaska, and had fled to the other bank ; 

 but when her heart was healed, she would return and live 

 in her own village, and among her own people. She con- 

 stantly inquired of the black traders, who came up the river, 

 if they had any news of the white man who passed with the 

 oxen. " He has gone down into the sea," was their reply, 

 '•' but we belong to the same people." " Oh, no ; you need 

 not tell me that ; he takes no slaves, but wishes peace : you 



