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ARRANGEMENTS ON LEAVING AFRICA. 
Society has resolved to havo a station among tho Makololo 
on the north bank, and another on the south among the 
Matebelo. The Church — Wesleyan, Baptist, and that most 
energetic body, tho Free Church — could each find desirable 
locations among the Batoka and adjacent tribes. Tho 
country is so extensivo thcro is no fear of clashing. All 
olasses of Christians find that sectarian rancor soon diet 
out when they aro working togethor among and for the 
real heathen. Only lot tho hoalthy locality bo searched 
for and fixed upon, and then there will bo free scope to 
work in tho same cause in various directions, without that 
loss of men which tho system of missions on tho unhealthy 
coast entails. Whilo respectfully submitting tho plan to 
theso influential societies, I can positively state that, when 
fairly in tho interior, thcro is perfect security for lifo and 
property among a pooplo who will at least listen and 
reason. 
Eight of my mon bogged to bo allowed to como as far 
as Kilimanc, and, thinking that thoy would theyo sco tho 
ocean, I consented to their coming, though tho food was so 
scarce in conscquonco of a dearth that they were compelled 
to suffer some hunger. Thoy would fain have como far- 
ther; for when Sokelctu parted with them his orders were 
that none of them should turn until they had reached Ma 
Robert and brought her back with them. On my explain- 
ing tho difficulty of crossing tho soa, ho said, “ Whcrovor 
you lead, thoy must follow.” As I did not know well how 
I should get homo myself, I advised them to go back to 
leto, where food was abundant, and thcro await ray return 
1 bought a quantity of calico and brass wire with ton of 
tho smaller tusks which wo had in our charge, ano sent 
tho former back as clothing to those who remained at Tote 
As there wore still twenty tusks left, I deposited them 
with Colonel Nunes, that, in tho ovent of any thing hap 
poning to provent my return, tho impression might not bf 
produced in tho country that I had made away with Seko- 
letu’s ivory. I instructed Colonel Nunes, in case of my 
