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Stay in Garenganze. 
found nothing but a dark, dreary, confined hut around me, and 
the wind blowing through piteously, and moaning in the branches 
of the tree above. My days, however, were not spent unhappily, 
or my nights, for that matter. I had much quiet peace of mind 
and pleasure in the study of the Word, which indeed was my 
chief employment, as I was not able to do much out of doors. 
My hope is, that the Lord will give me grace and patience to 
hold the ground until others come forward to help in the work, 
and that I may be enabled to remain by them for their help and 
encouragement. Time, indeed, seems to be nothing so long as 
He gives the grace and patience to wait. Last night, when in 
prayer, I was greatly refreshed by a realization of the exceeding 
abundance and sufficiency of His grace in every possible emer- 
gency — in " every time of need " — and I was enabled to ask for 
perfect and enduring contentment under all circumstances. 
I and my boys are entirely alone, all the Biheans having gone 
off. The Garenganze are exceedingly slow in coming to me; 
still a few do come. We are longing intensely for rain ; the sun 
is scorching, and the ground gets as hot as coals in a fire. To 
add to my troubles, Dick has been taken ill, and is quite laid 
aside. 
To-day I have had two men employed in covering my house 
with grass ; it is much better now, and I hope to have it finished 
within another month. 
October :^rd. — This morning Dick came hobbling on a stick 
to greet me with a smile on his face. This is the first day he 
has been able to get out. 
THE ROUTE TO NYASSA. 
In the afternoon I spent a short time with Msidi, who sent to 
invite an Arab trader to meet me. I found this man quite a 
pure Arab, rather pleasant-looking. He said he had come from 
close to Mozambique, and had crossed Lake Nyassa, where he 
saw two steam-launches and many English people, and had met 
one EngHsh lady. Lake Nyassa is two months' journey from this, 
he tells me, and describes the route as safe, and says that food is 
plentiful.* 
* Of late the agents of the African Lakes Company and the missionaries, as 
well as the natives, have grievously suffered from Arab attacks, and all hope of 
communication with Lake Nyassa is cut off for the present. 
