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country till the matter could be concluded ; but as 
there v/ere a great many preliminaries yet, which 
would take many days' palaver to get over, I decided 
to proceed to Ribe, promising that, as soon as they 
were ready, I would make a special trip to Geriama to 
complete the arrangement, if they wished me to do so. 
On the morning of the loth of October, therefore, 
I left Geriama, and on the afternoon of the same day 
I was upon the Mission Station, which we had left 
three months before. Great was the delight of the 
people to see us back again. It had been reported, 
that we had all been murdered ; so much greater, - 
therefore, was the pleasure of seeing us safe and 
sound again. The Wanika were received by their 
friends with shouts and songs of rejoicing. Wives, 
sisters, mothers, fathers, brothers — all turned out to 
bid the wanderers welcome. 
About a fortnight afterwards a deputation from 
Geriama came to the Station to say it had been 
arranged that the Wageriama and the Warabai 
should meet for the purpose of concluding the peace, 
and begging me to go over to unite the parties. 
I found the Wageriama gathered together in large 
numbers, holding a parliament beneath the trees in 
one of their kayas. Great speeches were made, which 
elicited thunders of applause, from which it was quite 
evident to me that the people were in earnest. It 
having been arranged that the parties should meet 
upon a spot on the border between the two territories, 
when the speechifying was over, we set out for the 
place. Presently the two peoples came in sight of 
each other, when, as if mutually smitten with fear, 
both suddenly halted. It was the first time they had 
