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soon become, to a considerable degree, self-supporting, and 

 raise certain kinds of food, like the Portuguese of Senna and 

 Quillimane. Mr. Burrup, an energetic young man, had 

 arrived at Chibisa's the day before the Bishop, having 

 come up the Shire in a canoe. A surgeon and a lay brother 

 followed behind in another canoe. The Pioneer's draught 

 being too much for the upper part of the Shire, it was not 

 deemed advisable to bring her up, on the next trip, further 

 than the Ruo ; the Bishop, therefore, resolved to explore the 

 country from Magomero to the mouth of that river, and to 

 meet the ship with his sisters and Mrs. Burrup, in January. 

 This was arranged before parting, and then the good Bishop 

 and Burrup, whom we were never to meet again, left us; 

 they gave and received three hearty English cheers as they 

 went to the shore, and we steamed off. 



The rains ceased on the 14th, and the waters of the Shire 

 fell, even more rapidly than they had risen. A shoal, twenty 

 miles below Chibisa's, checked our further progress, and we 

 lay there five weary weeks, till the permanent rise of the river 

 took place. During this detention, with a large marsh on 

 each side, the first death occurred in the Expedition which 

 had now been three-and-a-half years in the country. The 

 carpenter's mate, a fine, healthy young man, was seized with 

 fever. The usual remedies had no effect ; he died suddenly 

 while we were at evening prayers, and was buried on shore. 

 He came out in the Pioneer, and, with the exception of 

 a slight touch of fever at the mouth of the Kovuma, had 

 enjoyed perfect health all the time he had been with us. 

 The Portuguese are of opinion that the European who has im- 

 munity from this disease for any length of time after he 

 enters the country is more likely to be cut off by it when it 

 does come, than the man who has it frequently at first. 



The rains became pretty general towards the close of Decem- 



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