Chap. XX. 



THE MISSIONAEDES SUCCESSFUL. 



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The Missionaries were successful; the offending village 

 was burned, and a few sheep and goats were secured, 

 which could not be considered other than a very mild 

 punishment for the offence committed ; the headman, 

 Muana-soniba, afraid to retain the prisoners any longer, 

 forthwith liberated them, and they returned to their homes. 

 This incident took place at the time we were at the Buo and 

 during the rains, and proved very trying to the health 

 of the Missionaries ; they were frequently wetted, and had 

 hardly any food but roasted maize. Mr. Scudamore was 

 never well afterwards. Directly on their return to Magomero, 

 the Bishop and Mr. Burrup, both suffering from diarrhoea 

 in consequence of wet, hunger, and exposure, started for 

 Chibisa's to go down to the Buo by the Shire. So fully 

 did the Bishop expect a renewal of the soaking wet from 

 which he had just returned, that on leaving Magomero he 

 walked through the stream. The rivulets were so swollen 

 that it took five days to do a journey that would otherwise 

 have occupied only two days and a half. 



None of the Manganja being willing to take them down 

 the river during the flood, three Makololo canoe-men agreed 

 to go with them. After paddling till near sunset, they de- 

 cided to stop and sleep on shore ; but the mosquitoes were 

 so numerous that they insisted on going on again; the 

 Bishop, being a week behind the time he had engaged to 

 be at the Buo, reluctantly consented, and in the darkness 

 the canoe was upset in one of the strong eddies or whirl- 

 pools, which suddenly boil up in flood time near the out- 

 going branches of the river; clothing, medicines, tea, coffee, 

 and sugar were all lost. Wet and weary, and tormented by 



wa3 discovered. A white vapour, at 

 that time resting on the rich valley at 

 the southern end of the lake, had led 



to the inference that the lake stretched 

 a little further south than it actually 

 does. 



