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Among the Barotse. 
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pulled down stream for some miles, going quite out of my sight, 
they returned in about an hour's time and entreated me to enter 
the boat. I professed to be annoyed at their importunity, shut my 
book, and got in ; and off we went, the men rowing as they had 
not done since we started, in order to make up for lost time. 
God has not opened up my way so far, to leave me now; 
this I know. He does not so work. "The kingdom of 
God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy 
in the Holy Ghost''— not earthly comforts, but heavenly and 
spiritual things. My greedy flesh shrinks from banishment for " a 
little while " from kith and kin, but there are " better things " 
remaining to me. Let my one desire in this Hfe be to possess 
to the full those " better things " at whatever cost to the "lesser." 
"Ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the 
Lord made by fire." (Lev. ii. ii.) It is ours then to lay aside 
the honey of this life, and let Him who filleth all things fill us 
with Himself. 
I used to like a quiet walk through the woods, and enjoyed the 
solitude, but I cannot do so here ; the lions are too numerous, 
and very dangerous. During this week I have heard of two 
persons being killed by lions close by. The Lord, however, has 
wonderfully preserved me from wild animals, though they have 
been very near to me at times. 
September 12th. — I reached Panda-ma-tenka again yesterday, 
after a long, dry walk of eighty-five miles, mostly through heavy 
sand, from the junction of the Chobe and Zambesi, which took 
us two days and a . half, and not a drop of water did we find 
for the last seventy miles. The last night and day I suffered a 
good deal, but thank God for the strength given to take me 
through. 
The heat just now is very great, and will be until the rains fall. 
I fain hoped to get a week's rest here, but the carriers who came 
with me from Shesheke refuse to stay an hour longer than to- 
morrow afternoon. They are in terror of their lives, lest the 
Matabele should come and kill them ; so I have been working 
night and day making up bundles of cloth, beads, food, etc., and 
start off to-morrow post haste. To a casual observer, my hasten- 
ing so to get away would seem like impatience; but I cannot 
get other carriers, and must go. Were I to delay too long, they 
