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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
hunting, however, is slight, and year by year the results 
are diminishing. 
At Tette we stand in the city of a dominion. Two 
centuries have passed away since its conquest, and the 
concurrent introduction of civilisation to its unimpres¬ 
sionable people. 
What is the outcome of this two hundred years’ inter¬ 
course upon the moral or social status of the inhabitants ? 
Slavery, it is true, does not flourish in the same open 
way that was shown in days gone by; nevertheless it is 
yet carried on to a considerable extent. To find out how 
it could be utterly eradicated without seriously injuring 
those who are now in bondage is an inscrutable problem. 
The people have been brought up in the atmosphere 
of slavery, and cannot understand any other form of 
existence. 
Money, as a medium of exchange, is but little known 
even at the present time ; mercantile transactions being 
usually carried out through the barter of cloth, beads, 
and aqua ardiente, the latter forming a highly-important 
article of commerce. 
Industries are few. The people manufacture rings of 
gold, and out of hard wood —lignum vitce, of which 
there is abundance, and ebony—they fashion various 
forms of cups, bowls, and ornaments. They make pipes 
of clay, which have not changed their form or improved 
from time immemorial. The rough clothes they wear 
were to some extent made from indigenous cotton ; but 
the trifling industry in this department is on the wane 
through the introduction of Manchester goods. 
They till the soil with the hoe. These implements 
are made by tribes away up in the mountains, who 
bring their blacksmithing products to the dwellers of the 
great valley in exchange for cloth and fossil stones. 
The tsetse fly being so close to the town makes it 
impossible to employ cattle for the purposes of agri¬ 
culture ; and for this reason a plough is an unseen 
article throughout the length and breadth of the 
Zambesi valley. 
In the heart of the town I never saw the tsetse fly. 
