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knowledge of agriculture strikes an honest intelligent 

 observer, it may be mentioned that the first time good 

 Bishop Mackenzie beheld how well the fields of the 

 Manganja were cultivated on the hills, he remarked to 

 Dr. Livingstone, then his fellow-traveller — " When telling 

 the people in England what were my objects in going out 

 to Africa, I stated that, among other things, I meant to 

 teach these people agriculture ; but I now see that they 

 know far more about it than I do." This, we take it, was 

 an honest straightforward testimony, and we believe 

 that every unprejudiced witness, who has an opportunity 

 of forming an opinion of Africans who have never been 

 debased by slavery, will rank them very much higher in 

 the scale of intelligence, industry, and manhood, than 

 others who know them only in a state of degradation. 



On coming near Chinsamba's two stockades, on the 

 banks of the Lintipe, we were told that the Mazitu had 

 been repulsed there the day before, and we had evidence 

 of the truth of the report of the attack in the sad sight of 

 the bodies of the slain. The Zulus had taken off large 

 numbers of women laden with corn ; and, when driven 

 back, had cut off the ears of a male prisoner, as a sort of 

 credential that he had been with the Mazitu, and with 

 grim humour sent him to tell Chinsamba " to take good 

 care of the corn in the stockades, for they meant to return 

 for it in a month or two." 



Chinsamba's people were drumming with might and 

 main on our arrival, to express their joy at their deliver- 

 ance from the Mazitu. The drum is the chief instrument 

 of music among the Manganja, and with it they express 

 both their joy and grief. They excel in beating time. 

 Chinsamba called us into a very large hut, and presented us 

 with a huge basket of beer. The glare of sunlight from 

 which we had come enabled him, in diplomatic fashion, to 

 have a good view of us before our eyes became enough 



