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KINDNESS OT THE PEOPLE. 
flocking from a distance, and seldom empty-handed. Thoii 
presents I distributed among my mon. 
Our progress down the Barotso valley was just like ‘.hie. 
Every village gave us an ox, and sometimes two. Tho 
people wero wonderfully kind. I felt, and still feel, mopt 
deeply gratofhl, and tried to benefit them in tbo only way 
I could, by imparting tho knowledge of that Savior who 
can comfort and supply them in the time of need; and my 
prayer is that ho may send his good Spirit to instruct them 
and lead them into his kingdom. Even now I earnestly 
long to return and make some recompense to thorn for 
thoir kindness. In passing them on our way to tho north, 
their liborality might have been supposed to bo influenced 
by tho hope of repayment on our return, for tho whito 
man s land is imagined to bo the source of every ornament 
thoy prizo most. But, though wo set out from T.oanda 
with a considerate quantity of goods, hoping both to pay 
our way through tho stingy Chiboquo and to make presents 
to the kind Balonda and still moro generous Makololo, the 
many delays caused by sickness made us expend all my 
stock, and all the goods my men procured by thoir own 
labor at Loanda, and wo returned to the Makololo as poor 
as when wo sot out. Yet no distrust was shown, and my 
poverty did not lesson my influence. They saw that I had 
boon oxorting myself fbr thoir benefit alone, and ovon my 
mon romarkod, “ Though we return as poor as wo went, 
wo havo not gono in vain.” Thoy began immediately to 
collect tusks of hippopotami and other ivory for a second 
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