1872.] CHUMA MARRIES NTAOEKA. 201 



coast, I did not like to have a fine-looking woman among us 

 unattached, and proposed that she should marry one of my 

 three worthies, drama, Gardner, or Mabruki, but she smiled 

 at the idea. Chuma was evidently too lazy ever to get a wife ; 

 the other two were contemptible in appearance, and she has 

 a good presence and is buxom. Chuma promised reform : 

 ■" he had been lazy, he admitted, because he had no wife." 

 Circumstances led to the other women wishing Ntaoeka 

 married, and on my speaking to her again she consented. 

 I have noticed her ever since working hard from morning 

 to night : the first up in the cold mornings, making fire 

 and hot water, pounding, carrying water, wood, sweeping, 

 cooking. 



21st June. — No jugglery or sleight-of-hand, as Avas re- 

 commended to Napoleon III., would have any effect in 

 the civilization of the Africans ; they have too much good 

 sense for that. Nothing brings them to place thorough 

 confidence in Europeans but a long course of well-doing. 

 They believe readily. in the supernatural as effecting any 

 new process or feat of skill, for it is part of their original 

 faith to ascribe everything above human agency to unseen 

 spirits. Goodness or unselfishness impresses their minds 

 more than any kind of skill or power. They say, " You have 

 different hearts from ours ; all black men's hearts are bad, 

 but yours are good." The prayer to Jesus for a new heart 

 and right spirit at once commends itself as appropriate. 

 Music has great influence on those who have musical ears, 

 and often leads to conversion. 



[Here and there he gives more items of intelligence from 

 the war which afford a perfect representation of the rumours 

 and contradictions which harass the listener in Africa, es- 

 pecially if he is interested, as Livingstone was, in the 

 re-establishment of peace between the combatants.] 



Lewale is off to the war with Mirambo ; he is to finish 



