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down to the ship on the 14th, with some of the "Pioneer's" 

 men, who had been at Magomero for the benefit of their 

 health, and also for the purpose of assisting the Mission. 

 The Bishop appeared to be in excellent spirits, and 

 thought that the future promised fair for peace and use- 

 fulness. The Ajawa having been defeated and driven off 

 while we were on the Lake, had sent word that they 

 desired to live at peace with the English. Many of the 

 Manganja had settled round Magomero, in order to be 

 under the protection of the Bishop ; and it was hoped that 

 the slave-trade would soon cease in the highlands, and the 

 people be left in the secure enjoyment of their industry. 

 The Mission, it was also anticipated, might soon become, 

 to a considerable degree, self-supporting, and raise certain 

 kinds of food, like the Portuguese of Senna and Quil- 

 limane. Mr. Burrup, an energetic young man, had 

 arrived at Chibisa's the day before the Bishop, having 

 come up the Shire in a canoe. A surgeon and a lay 

 brother followed behind in another canoe. The "Pioneer's " 

 draught being too much for the upper part of the Shire, it 

 w r as not deemed advisable to bring her up, on the next 

 trip, further than the Kuo ; the Bishop, therefore, resolved 

 to explore the country from Magomero to the mouth of 

 that river, and to meet the ship with his sisters and Mrs. 

 Burrup, in January. This was arranged before parting, 

 and then the good Bishop and Burrup, whom we were 

 never to meet again, left us ; they gave and received three 

 hearty English cheers as they went to the shore, and we 

 steamed off. 



The rains ceased on the 14th, and the waters of the 

 Shire fell, even more rapidly than they had risen. A shoal, 

 twenty miles below Chibisa's, checked our further progress, 

 and we lay there five weary weeks, till the permanent 

 rise of the river took place. During this detention, witli 

 a large marsh on each side, the first death occurred in the 



