REMARKS OF MAMIRE. 32b 
when a littlo boy, and the tribo in which ho was a captive 
had migrated to the country near Tete ; he had travelled 
along both banks of the Zambesi several times, and was 
intimately acquainted with the dialects spoken there. I 
found him to bo a person of great prudence and sound 
judgment, and his subsequent loss at the Mauritius has 
beon, ever since, a source of sincere regret. Ho at once 
recommended our keeping well away from the river, on 
account of the tsetso and rocky country, assigning also as 
a reason for it that the Leeambyo beyond the falls turns 
round to the N.N.E. Mamiro, who had married the mother 
of Sekeletu, on coming to bid mo farewell before starting, 
said, “You are now going among people who cannot be 
trusted, because we have used them badly ; but you go with 
a different message from any they ever heard before, and 
Jesus will be with you and help you, though among enemies; 
and if he carries you safely, and brings you and Ma Kobort 
back again, I shall say ho has bestowed a great favor upon 
me. May wo obtain a path whereby wo may visit and bo 
visited by other tribes and by white men I” On tolling 
him my fears that he was still inclined to follow the old 
marauding system, which prevented intercourse, and that 
he, from his influential position, was especially guilty in the 
late forays, ho acknowledged all rather too freoly for my 
taste, but seomod quite aware that the old system was far 
from right. Mentioning my inability to pay the men who 
Were to accompany me, ho replied, “ A man wishes, of 
course, to appear among his friends, after a long absence, 
with something of his own to show : tho whole of the 
ivory in tho country is yours, so you must take as much aa 
you can, and Sekeletu will furnish men to carry it.” These 
remarks of Mamiro are quoted literally, in ordor to show 
the state of mind of the most influential in tho tribo. And, 
I wish to give tho reader a fair idea of tho othor sido of 
the quostion as well, it may be mentioned that Motibe 
parried the imputation of tho guilt of marauding by every 
possible subterfuge. He would not admit that they had 
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