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A FOREST GEAYE. 



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and tears of such as were oppressed, and on the side of 

 the oppressors there was a power: there be higher than 

 they! 



Perembe was one of the culprits thus menaced. The 

 slave-owner asked Kapika's wife if she would return to 

 kill Kapika. The others answered to the names of the 

 different men with laughter. Her heart was evidently 

 sore : for a lady to come so low down is to her grievous. 

 She has lost her jaunty air, and is, Avith her head shaved, 

 ugly ; but she never forgets to address her captors with 

 dignity, and they seem to fear her. 



25th June. — We went over flat forest with patches of 

 brown haematite cropping out ; this is the usual iron ore, 

 but I saw in a village pieces of specular iron-ore which had 

 been brought for smelting. The Luongo flowed away some- 

 what to our right or west, and the villagers had selected 

 their site where only well-water could be found : we went 

 ten minutes towards the Luongo and got abundance. 



The gardens had high hedges round to keep off wild 

 beasts. We came to a grave in the forest ; it was a 

 little rounded mound as if the occupant sat in it in the 

 usual native way: it 

 was strewed over with 

 flour, and a number of 

 the large blue beads 

 put on it : a little path 

 showed that it had 

 visitors. This is the 

 sort of grave I should 

 prefer : to lie in the 

 still, still forest, and no 

 hand ever disturb my bones, 

 seemed to me to be miserable, especially those in the cold 

 damp clay, and without elbow room; but I have nothing 

 to do but wait till He who is over all decides where I 



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A Forest Grave. 



The graves at home always 



