412 DEATH OF BISHOP MACKENZIE. Chap. XX. 



mosquitoes, they lay iu the canoe till morning dawned, and 

 then proceeded to Malo, an island at the mouth of the Kuo, 

 where the Bishop was at once seized with fever. 



Had they been in their usual health, they would doubt- 

 less have pushed on to Shupanga, or to the ship ; but fever 

 rapidly prostrates the energies, and induces a drowsy stupor, 

 from which, if not roused by medicine, the patient gradually 

 sinks into the sleep of death. Still mindful, however, of 

 his office, the Bishop consoled himself by thinking, that he 

 might gain the friendship of the Chief, which would be of 

 essential service to him in his future labours. That heartless 

 man, however, probably suspicious of all foreigners from the 

 knowledge he had acquired of white slave-traders, wanted to 

 turn the dying Bishop out of the hut, as he required it for 

 his corn, but yielded to the expostulations of the Makololo. 

 Day after day for three weeks did these faithful fellows 

 remain beside his mat on the floor ; till, without medicine 

 or even proper food, he died. They dug his grave on the 

 edge of the deep dark forest where the natives buried their 

 dead. Mr. Burrup, himself far gone with dysentery, staggered 

 from the hut, and, as in the dusk of evening they committed 

 the Bishop's body to the grave, repeated from memory por- 

 tions of our beautiful service for the Burial of the Dead — 

 "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and 

 certain hope of the resurrection of the dead through our 

 Lord Jesus Christ." And in this sad way ended the earthly 

 career of one, of whom it can safely be said that for un- 

 selfish goodness of heart, and earnest devotion to the noble 

 work he had undertaken, none of the commendations of his 

 friends can exceed the reality. The grave in which his body 

 rests is about a hundred yards from the confluence of the Buo, 

 on the left bank of the Shire, and opposite the island of Malo. 

 The Makololo then took Mr. Burrup up in the canoe as far 



