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the country he must then give it up. Supper again 

 with Fairbairn. 



" January 2\th. — More promising morning, 

 though cloudy and showery. Fairbairn, Lee, and 

 I, to the king. Fairbairn does a good trade with 

 him after the row. Nini and her friends were eat- 

 ing a large dish of excellent vegetable -marrows. 

 The smoke got into my eyes, and Banyai kindly 

 motioned me across the hut. John Lee killed a 

 lung-sick heifer of the king's, and opened her chest 

 with a saw, taking out the liquid which accumulates 

 in the cavity of the lungs during the sickness. 

 With this I helped him to drench some young cattle 

 of the king's. Each has about a small beakerful. 

 Lee says he never lost one that he drenched in this 

 way. 



"January 2^th. — Lovely morning; rose and 

 dressed leisurely. The heat soon became intense, 

 and of that moist character that seems to make it 

 far worse to bear ; felt quite prostrated by it. 

 The wife of Lee's boy, who tried to leave him and 

 is now undergoing punishment after being tried 

 before the king, came crying to my waggon. Lee 

 drove her away. It appears that the boy had to 

 pay Lee £6, which the girl owed the latter, before 

 he could have her, both being in Lee's service, as 

 well as the father-in-law, mother, and sister of the 

 boy. The boy told Lee he had paid the money to 

 the king. This was a lie, so Lee demanded the 

 money of the king in the presence of the boy. Thus 

 the offence was shown to be against the king, and 



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