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are not of his tribe." This anti-slavery character excites such 

 universal attention, that any Missionary, who winked at the 

 gigantic evils involved in the slave-trade, would certainly fail 

 to produce any good impression on the native mind. 



We left the river here, and proceeded up the valley which 

 leads to the Mburuma or Mohango pass. The nights were 

 cold, and on the 30th of June the thermometer was as low 

 as 39° at sunrise. We passed through a village of twenty 

 large huts, which Sequaska had attacked on his return 

 from the murder of the Chief, Mpangwe. He caught the 

 women and children for slaves, and carried off all the food, 

 except a huge basket of bran, which the natives are wont to 

 save against a time of famine. His slaves had broken all the 

 water-pots and the millstones for grinding meal. 



The buaze-trees and bamboos are now seen on the hills ; 

 but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been intro- 

 duced from India, extends no further up the river. We 

 had been eating this fruit, which, having somewhat the 

 taste of apples, the Portuguese call Maqaas, all the way from 

 Tette ; and here they were larger than usual, though imme- 

 diately beyond they ceased to be found. No mango-tree either 

 is to be met with beyond this point, because the Portuguese 

 traders never established themselves anywhere beyond 

 Zuinbo. Tsetse flies are more numerous and troublesome than 

 we have ever before found them. They accompany us on the 

 march, often buzzing round our heads like a swarm of bees. 

 They are very cunning, and when intending to bite, alight 

 so gently that their presence is not perceived till they thrust 

 in their lance-like proboscis. The bite is acute, but the pain 

 is over in a moment ; it is followed by a little of the dis- 

 agreeable itching of the musquito's bite. This fly invariably 

 kills all domestic animals except goats and donkeys ; man and 



