208 UONS — ARABS. 



for a ball to reach him, so we let him enjoy himself, certain 

 that he durst not have been guilty of the impertinence 

 in the Bushman country. Wherever the game abounds, 

 these animals exist in proportionate numbers. Here they 

 were very frequently seen, and two of the largest I ever 

 saw seemed about as tall as common donkeys ; but the 

 mane made their bodies appear rather larger. 



A party of Arabs from Zanzibar were in the country 

 at this time. Sekeletu had gone from Naliele to the town 

 of his mother before we arrived from the north, but left 

 an ox for our use, and instructions for us to follow him 

 thither. We came down a branch of the L,eeambye called 

 Marile, which departs from the main river in lat. 15 15' 

 43" S., and is a fine deep stream about sixty yards wide ; 

 It makes the whole of the country around Naliele an island. 

 When sleeping at a village in the same latitude as Naliele 

 town two of the Arabs mentioned made their appearance ; 

 they were quite as dark as the Makololo, but, having their 

 lieads shaved, I could not compare their hair with that 

 of the inhabitants of the country. When we were about 

 to leave they came to bid adieu, but I asked them to 

 stay and help us to eat our ox. As they had scruples 

 about eating an animal not blooded in their own way, 

 T gained their good will by saying I was quite of their 

 opinion as to getting quit of the blood, and gave them 

 two legs of an animal slaughtered by themselves. They 

 professed the greatest detestation of the Portuguese, 

 " because they eat pigs ; " and disliked the English, 

 " because they thrash them for selling slaves." I was 

 silent about pork ; though, had they seen me at a hippo- 

 potamus two days afterwards, they would have set me 

 down as being as much a heretic as any of that nation ; 

 but I ventured to tell them that I agreed with the English, 

 that it was better to let the children grow up and comfort 

 their mothers when they became oldT than to carry them 

 sway and sell them across the sea. This they never 

 attempt to justify ; " they want them only to cultivate 

 the land, and take care of them as their children." It 

 Is the same old story, justifying a monstrous wrong on 

 pretence of taking care of those degraded portions _ of 

 humanity which cannot take care of themselves — doing 

 evil that good may come. 



These Arabs, or Moors, could read and write their own 

 language readily ; and, when speaking about our Saviour, 



