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food : we give a cloth to tlie headman of the village where 

 we pass the night, and he gives a goat, or at least cooked 

 fowls and porridge, at night and morning. 



We were invited by Gombwa in the afternoon to speak 

 the same words to his people that we used to himself in the 

 morning. He nudged a boy to respond, which is considered 

 polite, though he did it only with a rough hem ! at the end 

 of each sentence. As for our general discourse we mention 

 our relationship to our Father : His love to all His children 

 — the guilt of selling any of His children — the consequence ; 

 e.g. it begets war, for they don't like to sell their own, and 

 steal from other villagers, who retaliate. Arabs and Waiyau 

 invited into the country by their selling, foster feuds, and 

 war and depopulation ensue. We mention the Bible — 

 future state — prayer : advise union, that they should unite 

 as one family to expel enemies, who came first as slave- 

 traders, and ended by leaving the country a wilderness. 

 In reference to union, we showed that they ought to have 

 seen justice done to the man who lost his wife and child at 

 their very doors ; but this want of cohesion is the bane of 

 the Manganja. If the evil does not affect themselves they 

 don't care whom it injures ; and Gombwa confirmed this, by 

 saying that when he routed Khambuiri's people, the villagers 

 west of him fled instead of coming to his aid. 



We hear that many of the Manganja up here are fugitives 

 from Nyassa. 



10th October. — Kawa and his people were with us early this 

 morning, and we started from Tamiala with them. The 

 weather is lovely, and the scenery, though at present tinged 

 with yellow from the grass, might be called glorious. The 

 bright sun and delicious air are quite exhilarating. We 

 passed a fine flowing rivulet, called Levize, going into the 

 Lake, and many smaller runnels of delicious cold water. On 

 resting by a dark sepulchral grove, a tree attracted the 

 attention, as nowhere else seen: it is called Bokonto, and 



