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society, gives rise to frequent and desolating wars, and 

 the people long in vain for a power able to make all dwell 

 in peace. In this light, a European colony would be con- 

 sidered by the natives as an inestimable boon to inter- 

 tropical Africa. Thousands of industrious natives would 

 gladly settle round it, and engage in that peaceful pursuit 

 of agriculture and trade of which they are so fond, and, 

 undistracted by wars or rumours of wars, might listen to 

 the purifying and ennobling truths of the gospel of Jesus 

 Christ. The Manganja on the Zambesi, like their country- 

 men on the Shire, are fond of agriculture ; and, in addition 

 to the usual varieties of food, cultivate tobacco and cotton 

 in quantities more than equal to their wants. To the 

 question, " Would they work for Europeans ? " an affirm- 

 ative answer may be given, if the Europeans belong- 

 to the class which can pay a reasonable price for labour, 

 and not to that of adventurers who want employment for 

 themselves. All were particularly well clothed from 

 Sandia's to Pangola's ; and it was noticed that all the cloth 

 was of native manufacture, the product of their own 

 looms. In Senga a great deal of iron is obtained from the 

 ore and manufactured very cleverly. 



As is customary when a party of armed strangers 

 visits the village, Pangola took the precaution of sleeping 

 in one of the outlying hamlets. No one ever knows, or 

 at any rate will tell, where the chief sleeps. He came 

 not next morning, so we went our way ; but in a few 

 moments we saw the rifle-loving chief approaching with 

 some armed men. Before meeting us, he left the path and 

 drew up his "following" under a tree, expecting us to 

 halt, and give him a chance of bothering us again ; but, 

 having already had enough of that, we held right on : 

 he seemed dumbfoundered, and could hardly believe his 

 own eyes. For a few seconds he was speechless, but at 

 last recovered so far as to be able to say, " You are passing 



