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it pleases me, here in the wilds, to place, as it were, my poor 

 little garland of love on their tombs. Sir Bartle Frere 

 having accomplished the grand work of abolishing slavery 

 in Scindiah, Upper India, deserves the gratitude of every 

 lover of human kind. 



" Private friendship guided me in the selection of other 

 names where distinctive epithets were urgently needed. 

 ' Paraffin ' Young, one of my teachers in chemistry, raised 

 himself to be a merchant prince by his science and art, and 

 has shed pure white light in many lowly cottages, and in 

 some rich palaces. Leaving him and chemistry, I went 

 away to try and bless others. I, too, have shed light of 

 another kind, and am fain to believe that I have performed 

 a small part in the grand revolution Avhich our Maker has 

 been for ages carrying on, by multitudes of conscious, and 

 many unconscious agents, all over the world. Young's 

 friendshijD never faltered. 



" Oswell and Webb were fellow-travellers, and mighty 

 hunters. Too much engrossed myself with mission-work to 

 hunt, except for the children's larder, when going to visit 

 distant tribes, I relished the sight of fair stand-up fights by 

 my friends with the large denizens of the forest, and admired 

 the true Nimrod class for their great courage, truthfulness, 

 and honour. Being a warm lover of natural history, the 

 entire butcher tribe, bent only on making ' a bag,' without 

 regard to animal suffering, have not a single kindly word 

 from me. An Ambonda man, named Mokantju, told Oswell 

 and me in 1851 that the Liambai and Kafue rose as one 

 fountain and then separated, but after a long course came 

 together again in the Zambezi above Zumbo." 



8th Ocfo&er.— Mbarawa and party came yesterday from 

 Katomba at Mamohela. He reports that Jangeonge (?) with 

 Moeneokela's men had been killing people of the Metamba 

 or forest, and four of his people were slain. He intended 



