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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
we are apt to harm others of our own race, for the 
natives look upon all white men as belonging to one 
tribe.” 
Further, I learned that the work on the carrier’s road 
which was being cut between Lake Nyassa and Lake 
Tanganyika had been delayed on account of the death 
of Mr. Stewart, the engineer. Mr. McEwan,* a young 
and energetic man, had just gone up to continue the 
work ; but it seems that the part of the road which is 
cleared one year, is overgrown during the next through 
the strength of vegetable life, while it is notorious that 
if the work is continued with the same disastrous results 
as heretofore the whole route may become a cemetery, 
rivalling the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, in 
which every sleeper represents a sacrificed life. 
Part of the gossip of the lake was that a mechanical 
engineer f was then busily engaged in putting together 
a steamer intended to run in connection with the 
missions at Tanganyika. 
The much spoken of Makololo war was also a subject 
of conversation, and the reader will remember how the 
rumour echoed in our ears all the way through Angoni- 
land to the lake. It appeared that an English ivory 
hunter named Fenwick had fallen out with a chief 
called Chiputula on the Lower Shire. During the heat 
of the quarrel the chief was killed, and then the people 
rose en masse and killed the white man. 
The steamer which ran between the missions on the 
lower portion of the Shire (between the Zambesi and a 
village called Ivatunga, near Blantyre) was sunk by the 
enraged subjects of Chiputula, the cargo being stolen. 
The last news was that the steamer had been raised, 
and was then supposed to be undergoing repairs. No 
further intelligence could be expected until we reached 
the mission station in the hills. These mishaps on the 
Lower Shire had caused very hard times, especially by 
making provisions scarce on the lake. 
My long-lost twenty-four hours were now put right. 
A careful perusal of the journal showed that the un- 
* Since dead. f Since dead. 
