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food at my house to the poor hungry creatures caught stealing. 
So insensible, however, are they to mere rebuke, or even to kind 
treatment, that they will go off quietly, and again begin filling 
their baskets with half-ripe corn as soon as they think they are 
not observed. 
Those whose names "are written in the earth" '(Jer. xvii. 13) 
may hope to subsist on the fruit of the earth \ but I fear those 
who would live godly in such a country as this will have to look 
higher, even to Him who will yet destroy the belly itself by an 
everlasting fulness. 
My house is a very great comfort to me. We have had a time 
of very heavy and protracted rains, which have proved the site 
I have chosen to be an excellent one in regard to drainage, the 
ground sloping in three directions. A very porous subsoil of a 
sort of half-formed sandstone in thin strata, and all standing on 
edge, gives me a dry and comfortable house and yard after the 
heaviest rains, when all the villages around are actually standing 
in mud. 
May 2>th. — This is a delightful, calm Sunday evening. The 
sun is shining full into my door and windows, making my mud- 
plastered house look quite cheerful, but not a bit more so 
than I happen to be at this moment. I have just turned from a 
happy reading and study of 2 Peter i., and am enjoying the 
refreshing glow of these holy passages. 
Last week I returned from a three weeks' tour on foot, which I 
enjoyed exceedingly, in spite of the long grass and marsh- wading. 
The rainy season was just over, so I embraced the opportunity 
of taking another round. Besides Dick and other lads who 
accompanied me, I got a professional hunter to join the party, 
so as to relieve me of the extra fatigue of hunting. The first 
villages we reached were those of Mirambo, a little way beyond 
Kagoma's, on the Lukuruwe river. We rested there one day, 
and then went down the river, making for a company of Ba-na- 
lunda villages. The long grass tired me out, so we went into 
camp about mid-day, sending the hunter on. 
ADVENTURE WITH A LION. 
At this spot we had quite a remarkable adventure with a lion, 
which but for the protecting care of God would have ended more 
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