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jieopled, and the inhabitants are all civil and friendly. 

 From fifty to sixty large canoes come over from the left 

 bank daily to hold markets ; these people too " are good," but 

 the dwellers in the Metamba or dense forest are treacherous 

 and murder a single person without scruple : the dead body 

 is easily concealed, while on the plain all would become aware 

 of it. 



I long with intense desire to move on and finish my 

 work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that 

 may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the 

 ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what 

 pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will 

 in all things. 



I received information about Mr. Young's search trip 

 up the Shire and Nyassa only in February 1870, and now 

 take the first opportunity of offering hearty thanks in a 

 despatch to Her Majesty's Government, and all concerned 

 in kindly inquiring after my fate. 



Musa and his companions Avere fair average specimens 

 for heartlessness and falsehood of the lower classes of Mo- 

 hamadans in East Africa. When we were on the Shire we 

 used to swing the ship into mid-stream every night, in 

 order to let the air which was put in motion by the water, 

 pass from end to end. Musa's brother-in-law stepped into 

 the water one morning, in order to swim off for a boat, and 

 was seized by a crocodile, the poor fellow held up his hand 

 imploringly, but Musa and the rest allowed him to perish. 

 On my denouncing his heartlessness, Musa replied, " Well, 

 no one tell him go in there." When at Senna a slave 

 woman was seized by a crocodile : four Makololo rushed in 

 unbidden, and rescued her, though they knew nothing about 

 her : from long intercourse with both Johanna men and 

 Makololo I take these incidents as typical of the two races. 

 Those of mixed blood possess the vices of both races, and 

 the virtues of neither. 



