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likely to hear from you in reply to this, but, if the Lord will, 
I shall either communicate by messengers with Bihe and the 
coast, or go out so far, early in 1887, expecting to find some one. 
I don't think that this is pressing the matter too strongly or 
anticipating too much, seeing that ray last home news tends that 
way. 
EXERCISE OF PATIENCE. 
Belmojite, Bihe, August 27//^. — On my arrival here I at once 
proceeded to call upon old acquaintances, and made proposals 
and offers in all directions for carriers. 
30//^. — This morning a letter came from Chipongi, the chief, 
wanting more presents. I sent him a shawl and a shirt. In his 
letter he says I can proceed on my journey after he returns from 
an antelope hunt. The begging of these chiefs causes a most 
uncomfortable strain on one. It is the bane of travelling in 
Africa ; still, one must get on, and it is necessary to carry 
supplies of some sort. 
September 16th. — My carriers give me nothing but disappoint- 
ment. A few who have offered their services are so utterly 
unreasonable in their demands, that it is evident they have no 
intention of going with me. 
Nothing is lost by these delays ; all is conscious gain. I 
think labourers, or intending labourers in Africa, ought to take 
much heed to these words, '^Ye have need of patience." It 
seems at times as if everything was at a dead-lock, and every 
one around in a sound slumber. At last a little rustling is heard, 
and after a while a move is made ; but so surely as a halt occurs, 
all relax into profound inaction. I have been busy negociating 
with carriers all this month ; hundreds say they are wiUing to go. 
I only want thirty, and yet it takes weeks and even months to 
get them up to the carrying-point ; still, they do come, and I got 
my fifteenth load tied up to-day. 
I have been noticing lately in the Scriptures a double need of 
patience; one is "patience of hope^^ (i Thess. i. 3, also in James 
v.) ; the other is patience in work — " patient continuance in well-^ 
doing." (Rom. ii. 7.) This ''patience" has, I believe, a deeper 
meaning than appears at first sight ; it includes submissive 
obedience. By the introduction of submission to God into the 
otherwise trying details of service, patience is perfected. To 
