V. 
g)tap in ©arenganje. 
(Feb., 1886, TO Feb., 1888.) 
Tests of my Sincerity — Public Reception— Arab Traders — Site for a House 
Offered — Visits in Neighbourhood — The Two Ways— My Household — 
Return of Fever — In Search of Food — A Change in Dick — The Blessings of 
Rain — Msidi's Rule — Waste of Corn — Polygamy — New Year's Reflections — 
The Sombwe Caves — Hyenas in Camp — Msidi's Reception-Day — Baptism 
of Dick — Arabs' Camp — Hungry Visitors — Death of Johnny — Charms for 
Caravan Journey — Adventure with Lion — Msidi's Kindness — Slave Chil- 
dren — How Saddle and Boots were Provided — Susi Baptized — Executions 
— A Night alone with Wild Animals — Surgical Operation — Two Years' 
Letters — Brethren at hand — Mataya and her Son Pardoned — Prepare for 
Fellow- Labourers — Mr. Swan's Notes — Interview with Msidi — Queen 
Chitompa's Return from War — Visit to England proposed. 
TESTS OF MY SINCERITY. 
Febi'uary i^^h, 1886.- — I expected to have had an early interview 
with the king, but discovered that it was not the custom to receive 
entire strangers at once, so I was placed in a sort of quarantine. 
During this time they were deciding, according to their own 
wisdom and skill, whether my intentions in coming to the country 
were good or bad, and whether my heart was as white as my 
skin. Diviners and doctors from far and near were employed for 
this purpose. 
Some of their tests were certainly rather childish, though they 
had a grim humour about them. One was the placing of a little 
piece of bark at night in a certain decoction of some carefully 
compounded native medicines. Next morning, if this piece of 
bark appeared quite sound, it would show that my heart was 
sound, and that I had come to the Garenganze country without 
evil intentions. If, however, this little fragment of bark turned 
out to be unsound, or in any way decomposed, it would have 
