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with our white brothers, who are ever ready to take 
advantage of human weaknesses. 
At length, with all the decorum due to so important 
an assemblage, for to me the occasion and its results 
were of the greatest moment, Karemba inquired it the 
chief could give the white man boys to go to Kunyungwi, 
that being the name given by these people to lette, 
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the Portuguese settlement, or rather outpost, on the 
Zambesi, which in the meantime was my intended 
destination. 
Chibero, however, declared that he could give no boys, 
while all those who were beside the fire laughed with 
disdainful heedlessness. The Masliona have not the 
slightest idea of the lapse of time, their days being 
passed with purposeless indifference, and even with less 
exertion than is shown by the degenerate Mexicans. 
