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A “pieho'’ was called to doliborato on the steps proposod 
In these assemblies groat freedom of speech is allowed 
and on this occasion ono of tho old divinors said, “Where 
is ho taking you to ? This whito man is throwing yon 
away. Your garmonts already smell of blood. ' It is 
curious to observe how much identity of character appears 
till over the world. This man was a noted croaker. He 
always dreamed something dreadful in every expedition, 
and was certain that an eclipse or comet botokoned tho 
propriety of flight. But Sobituane formerly sot nts visions 
down to cowardice, and Sokelotu only laughed at him now. 
Tho general voico was in my favor; so a band of twenty 
soven wore appointed to accompany mo to tho west- 
Thoso men wero not hired, but sent to enable mo to 
accomplish an object as much desired by the chiof and 
most of his people as by mo. They wero eagor to obtain 
froe and profitable trade with whito men. Tho prices 
which tho Cape merchants could give, after defraying the 
great expenses of a long journey hither, being very small, 
made it scarce worth while for tbo natives to collect pro- 
duce for that market; and the Mambari, giving only a few 
bits of print and baize for elephants’ tusks worth more 
pounds than thoy gave yards of cloth, had produced the 
belief that trade with them was throwing ivory away. 
The desire of tho Makololo for direct trade with the sea- 
coast coincided exactly with my own conviction that no 
permanent elevation of a peoplo can be effected without 
commerce. Neither could thore bo a permanent mission 
here, unless the missionaries should descend to tho level of 
the Makololo, for even at Kolobeng wo found that traders 
demanded throe or four times the price of tho articles we 
needed, and expected us to bo grateful to them besides for 
letting us have thorn at. all. 
The three mon whom 1 bad brought from Kururaan had 
frequent relapses of the fever; so, finding that instead of 
serving me I had to wait on them, I decided that they 
should return to the south with Ploming as soon as he had 
