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thorn supplied us liborally with maize, groundnuts, and 
corn. Monze gavo us a goat and a fowl, and appeared 
highly satisfied with a present of somo handkerchiefs I had 
got in my supplies left at the island. Being of printed 
cotton, they excited great admiration; and, when I put 
gaudy-colored ono as a shawl about his child, ho said tha 
ho would send for all his people to make a danco about it. 
In telling them that my object was to open up a path 
whereby they might, by getting merchandise for ivoiy, 
avoid the guilt of selling their children, 1 asked Monzo, 
with about ono hundred and fifty of his men, if they would 
like a white man to live among them and teach them. All 
expressed high satisfaction at tho prospect of tho white 
man and his path: they would protect both him and his 
property. I asked tho question, becauso it would bo of 
great importanco to have stations in this healthy region, 
whither agents oppressed by sickness might retire, and 
which would serve, moreover, as part of a chain of com- 
munication between tho interior and tho coast. The 
answer does not moan much more than what I know, by 
other moans, to bo tho case, — that a white man of good sense 
would bo welcome and safe in all these parts. By upright- 
ness, and laying himself out for the good of tho people, ho 
would be known all over tho country as a benefactor of tho 
raco. Is ono desire Christian instruction, for of it they 
have no idea. But tho pcoplo are now humbled by tho 
scourgings they have received, and seem to bo in a favor- 
able state for tho reception of the gospel. Tho gradual 
restoration of their former prosperity in cattle, simul 
taneously with instruction, would oporato beneficially upon 
their minds. Tho Ianguago is a dialect of the other negn 
languages in tho groat valley; and, as many of tho Batokr 
living under tho Makololo understand both it and the 
Sichuana, missionaries could soon acquire it through that 
medium. 
Monzo had never boon visited by any whito man, but 
had seen black native traders, who, ho said, came for ivory 
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