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saying that "I had great respect for Kapoko, I knew that he 
was a great man, and that the size of my present spoke only of 
my smallness, and not at all of his. Had I been a man in 
Kapoko's position among white men I no doubt would have 
given him bales of cloth instead." The frowning faces of these 
three old men dropped a little, but there was no reply. They 
seemed rather puzzled at my serious denial of their charge ; but 
some of the younger men sitting behind, after vainly trying to 
suppress their emotion, burst into laughter, which was the signal 
for a general hearty laugh, and so they left me. 
October i6fh. — My last night's visitors came back this morning, 
saying that Kapoko would give me nothing less than an ox, and that 
he had sent to the Quanza to procure one for me from one of his 
villages, and it would arrive on the morrow. I told them that I was 
very hungry, and that a sheep would be worth more to me to-day 
than an ox to-morrow. In the end a fat sheep was sent to my 
camp, after which Kapoko came himself to visit me. They 
carried him in a palanquin. He is a very old and frail man. 
A HELPER STRANGELY PROVIDED. 
Here I again made what proved to be almost a futile effort 
to collect carriers. 
After mustering them 1 started from Kapoko's capital for the 
Cisambe river, October 23rd. Here I met with Cinyama, an old 
man of some little importance among his own people. He was 
suffering from some malady, a cure for which he was told was to 
be had in the Garenganze country, where I proposed to go. 
Consequently he was very anxious that I should engage him, and 
he promised to provide me with what carriers I might require. 
At first I thought I would not require any from him ; but while at 
Cisambe my men dispersed, as they had done twice before when 
at Belmonte. A messenger came from a small chief on the 
borders of the Bihe country, warning my men on no account to 
go with me, that I had come from the east coast and was going 
there again (implying that they would never return) ; and with 
other words he succeeded so well in his object that all my men 
asked for the yard of cloth that I owed them for carrying my 
goods from Kapoko's town, and left me. 
After consulting with Cinyama I decided that it was of no use 
