1866.] A CHURLISH HEADMAN. 143 



2nd November. — Kan gene is very disagreeable naturally,, 

 and as we have to employ five men as carriers, we are in 

 his power. 



We can scarcely enter into the feelings of those who 

 are harried by marauders. Like Scotland in the twelfth 

 and thirteenth centuries harassed by Highland Celts on 

 one side and by English Marchinen on the other, and thus 

 kept in the rearward of civilisation, these people have rest 

 neither for many days nor for few. When they fill their 

 garners they can seldom reckon on eating the grain, for 

 the Mazitu come when the harvest is over and catch as 

 many able-bodied young persons as they can to carry away 

 the corn. Thus it was in Scotland so far as security for 

 life and property was concerned ; but the Scotch were apt 

 pupils of more fortunate nations. To change of country 

 they were as indifferent as the Romans of the olden times ; 

 they were always welcome in France, either as pilgrims,, 

 scholars, merchants, or soldiers ; but the African is dif- 

 ferent. If let alone the African's mode of life is rather 

 enjoyable; he loves agriculture, and land is to be had any- 

 where. He knows nothing of other countries, but he has 

 imbibed the idea of property in man. This Kangene told 

 me that he would like to give me a slave to look after 

 my goats : I believe he would rather give a slave than a 

 goat! 



We were detained by the illness of Simon for four days. 

 When he recovered Ave proposed to the headman to start 

 with five of his men, and he agreed to let us have them ; 

 but having called them together such an enormous demand 

 was made for wages, and in advance, that on the 7th of 

 November we took seven loads forward through a level 

 uninhabited country generally covered with small trees, 

 slept there, and on the morning of the 8th, after leaving 

 two men at our depot, came back, and took the remaining 

 five loads. 



