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my interpreter, after Umyeki’s men. Ina short time I saw 
a house burning, and a great number of men at a distance 
with cattle: we therefore left the main road and met them 
in the valleys, when we found that they were Umyeki’s men, 
who, after setting fire to the house, were returning with a 
large herd of cattle, together with all the plunder they could 
find among the Amatembu, two or three hundred of whom 
were following at a distance asking for their cattle. Um- 
yeki’s men had the cattle in front, and several hundreds of 
the men were loitering behind, singing their war-song and 
defying the Amatembu, by which means they had drawn 
them into a place where they could easily have turned round 
upon them and destroyed the whole; for the plundered 
Amatembu were so anxious about their cattle, that they were 
quite unconscious of their danger: it was just at this time 
we arrived, and got between them. We endeavoured to 
learn, from Umyeki’s men, the cause of all the disturbance, 
but they would not stop longer than to say “ We have 
lost our cattle, and these are now ours.” Finding it im- 
possible to have any explanation, we went forward with 
them, until we found that crossing the next rivulet, and 
ascending the hill immediately before us, would bring us 
into Umyeki’s country. Seeing this, I rode forward and 
turned the cattle, and before Umyeki’s main body came up, 
the men from our station arrived, into whose charge I gave 
the cattle, and informed Umyeki’s Commander that the 
cattle should go with me to the Station, and the news be 
heard to-morrow, (as we could not talk over such matters 
on the Sabbath,) when we would endeavour to find out the 
thieves and set all right. ‘To this he consented, “saying, 
“ Yes; what you do will be right, as we found on a former 
occasion ;” but immediately after, when the main body came 
up, a general muster was made by Umyeki’s men, who sur- 
