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8 th [Sunday).--Vet and John fishing; they take 
admirably, but we have only crooked pins for hooks, 
and cannot catch many. What we do manage are 
sweet and good, and a treat to us. 
Collins’s arrival from Mosilikatse gave new life 
to us all, and at length I have been able to get at 
something approaching the truth relative to Mosili- 
katse’s whereabouts. Collins thinks it about 140 
miles from this, ENE., nearly the same latitude as 
Sofala, about twelve days on foot from the coast, 
and about five days from the Zambesi, a large river, 
navigable for nearly 200 miles. Its mouth is near 
Quillemaine. Mosilikatse had treated Collins well 
in every respect, and he was in high spirits, and 
talked largely of what he would do. 
Swartz, always alive to his own interests, offered 
him the use of Kleinboy to shoot on halves. I prof¬ 
fered John or myself, but he wanted no assistance to 
fill his wagon in a fortnight with the finest ivory the 
country could produce; eventually, he took John 
Joubert, who was a capital interpreter. He had 
talked over Mosilikatse by some means or other, 
and eventually got for himself the much-desired leave 
to hunt. He was attended by twenty Kaffirs, and in 
the sole charge of one of his principal chief’s sons, 
invested with full authority to procure for him what¬ 
ever he required in the shape of meat or drink, food 
and corn for his horses, &c., which were carried with 
him wherever he went, and, for the time, he was all 
powerful, and left us poor fellows envying him 
