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Seven Years in Central Africa. [June, 
I have abundant supplies of food, and there is plenty of game 
to be had, so a lot of boys will be ready to go with me from the 
Mababi for the sake of the flesh they hope to get. The natives 
will not readily go with a white man if he does not shoot game. 
CHIEF KAMA AND HIS PEOPLE. 
I may here make some more remarks about Shoshong. 
The moral condition of Shoshong is in many respects most 
exemplary. Since coming here I have not seen an intoxicated 
person, either black or white, which could not be said by anyone, 
for the same period, in any other town in Africa where the white 
man trades. The chief, Kama, has put down the drink traffic 
most eff"ectually. Not only has he forbidden it among his own 
people, but he will not allow the liquor to pass through his 
country ; consequently none has passed into Central Africa from 
this side for some years, unless it be a very small quantity 
occasionally smuggled in. 
If a trader is found out once bringing drink into the place^ 
even for the use of the white people, he is turned off" Kama's 
territory, and never allowed to enter it again. 
In many respects Kama is a noble chief, and it would be well 
if other rulers imitated his unselfish Christian policy. None 
of his people are allowed to want, if he can help it. If they are 
tdo poor to buy, he provides them with a stock of cattle, the 
increase of which belongs to the poor man ; and thus Kama has 
distributed during the last few years thousands of cattle to such 
of his people as have suffered through loss of crops, cattle 
disease, etc. 
Athough he has stopped all beer-drinking amongst his people, 
and put down many of the revolting heathen customs in which 
formerly they delighted, yet they all like their chief, and would 
almost to a man die for him. 
Now and then Kama gets up hunts on a large scale to kill 
the larger kinds of game. These hunting parties go far into the 
desert, and often suffer greatly from want of food and water; 
but the chief is always the first to go without his share, and will 
not help himself until all are supplied, so that there is not the 
slightest grumbling on the part of his followers. 
In spite, however, of all the chief can do, very revolting 
