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able; while you may also obtain access to re- 

 gions and tribes where missionary enterprise 

 may be hereafter carried on with renewed 

 vigour.' This did not quite suit us, who had 

 been pledged by Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton to 

 avoid ' Dutchmen ' and proselytizing. Briefly, 

 M. Rebmann did not accompany us. A few 

 weeks afterwards we met him again at Zanzibar, 

 whither he had been driven by the plundering 

 Wamasai in February, 1857. His passion for the 

 ' wunderbar ' had not abated, and he told us im- 

 possible legends about vast forests and other myth- 

 ical features, near the Nyassa, southern or Zambe- 

 zean Lake. During the years which he had spent 

 in the Wanyika country he had never studied its 

 language; but when driven from it, he imme- 

 diately applied himself to Kinyika. An honest 

 and conscientious man, he had yet all the quali- 

 ties which secure unsuccess. He was the last of 

 the ten members of the hapless Mission : all of 

 them were attacked by bilious remittents a few 

 weeks after commencing their labours; several 

 had died, and the others had sought less danger- 

 ous fields for labour, and some possibility of 

 doing something in the spiritual way. That it 

 has been highly successful, geographically speak- 

 ing, none can doubt. The short trips into the 



