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words as these:— “What a fine country for cattle! My 
heart is Boro to see such fruitful valleys for corn lying 
wasto.” 
While at the villages of tho Kasabi we saw no evidences 
of want of food among tho people. Our beads were very 
valuable, but cotton cloth would havo been still more so; as 
we travelled along, men, women, and children came running 
*fter us, with meal and fowls for sale, which we would 
gladly have purchased had we possessed any English manu- 
factures. When they hoard that wo had no cloth, they 
turned back much disappointed. 
The amount of population in tho central parts of the 
country may be called large only as compared with the 
Cape Colony or the Bechuana country. The cultivated 
land is as nothing compared with what might be brought 
under tho plough. Thero are flowing streams in abundance, 
which, wore it necessary, could be turned to the purpose 
of irrigation with but little labor. Miles of fruitful country 
aro now lying absolutely waste, for there is not even game 
to eat off tho fine pasturage, and to recline under the ever- 
green, shady groves which we are ever passing in our pro- 
gress. The people who inhabit the central region are not 
all quite black in color. Many incline to that of bronze, 
and others are as light in hue as the Bushmen, who, it iuaj 
be rememborod, afford a proof that heat alone does not 
cause blackness, but that heat and moisture combined do 
very materially deepen tho color. • 
Having, on the aforementioned date, reached the village 
of Njambi, one of tho chiefs of tho Chiboquo, wo intended 
to pass a quiet Sunday; and, our provisions boing quite 
spent, I ordered a tired riding-os to be slaughtered. As 
we wished to bo on good terms with all, we sent the bump 
*nd ribs to Ajambi, with the explanation that this was the 
customary tribute to chiefs in tho part from which wo had 
come, and that wo always honored men in his position. He 
returned 1 hanks, and promised to send food. Mext mom 
big he sent an impudent message, with a very small present 
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