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supply of cloth and beads, and I sent for a small quantity 

 of coffee, sugar, candles, French preserved meats, a cheese 

 in tin, six bottles of port-wine, quinine, calomel, and resin 

 of jalap, to be sent to Ujiji. 



I proposed to go a little Avay east Avith this route to buy 

 goats, but Chitapangwa got very angry, saying, I came only 

 to show my things, and would buy nothing : he then altered 

 his tone, and requested me to take the cow first presented 

 and eat it, and as we were all much in need I took it. We 

 were to give only what we liked in addition ; but this was 

 a snare, and when I gave two more cloths he sent them 

 back, and demanded a blanket. The boys alone have 

 blankets ; so I told him these were not slaves, and I could 

 not take from them what I had once given. Though it is 

 disagreeable to be thus victimized, it is the first time we 

 have tasted fat for six weeks and more. 



6th February. — Chitapangwa came with his wife to see the 

 instruments which I explained to them as well as I could, 

 and the books, as Avell as the Book of Books, and to my 

 statements he made intelligent remarks. The boys are 

 sorely afraid of him. When Abraham does not like to say 

 what I state, he says to me " I don't know the proper 

 word ; " but when I speak without him, he soon finds them. 

 He and Simon thought that talking in a cringing manner 

 was the way to win him over, so I let them try it with a 

 man he sent to communicate with us, and the result was 

 this fellow wanted to open their bundles, pulled them 

 about, and kept them awake most of the night. Abraham 

 came at night : " Sir, what shall I do ? they won't let me 

 sleep." " You have had your own way," I replied, " and 

 must abide by it." He brought them over to me in the 

 morning, but I soon dismissed both him and them. 



1th February. — I sent to the chief either to come to me 

 or say when I should come to him and talk ; the answer I 

 irot was that he would come when shaved, but he afterwards 



