Chap. XXV. 
TKADING PAETY TO LOANDA. 
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by the governor and merchants of Loanda. I explained that 
none of these were my property, but that they were sent to show 
the friendly feehngs of the white men, and their eagerness to 
enter into commercial relations with the Makololo. I then 
requested my companions to give a true account of what they 
had seen. The wonderful things lost nothing in the telling, the 
climax always being that they had finished the whole world, and 
had turned only when there was no more land. One glib old 
gentleman asked—Then you reached Ma Eobert (Mrs. L.) ? ” 
They were obliged to confess that she lived a little beyond the 
world! The presents were received with expressions of great 
satisfaction and delight; and on Sunday, when Sekeletu made 
his appearance at church in his uniform, it attracted more atten¬ 
tion than the sermon; and the kind expressions they made use 
of respecting myself were so very fiattering, that I felt inclined 
to shut my eyes. Their private opinion must have tallied with 
their public report, for I very soon received offers from volun¬ 
teers to accompany me to the east coast. They said they wished 
to be able to return and relate strange things like my recent 
companions; and Sekeletu immediately made arrangements with 
the Arab Ben-Habib to conduct a fresh party with a load of 
ivory to Loanda These, he said, must go with him and learn to 
trade: they were not to have anything to do in the disposal of 
the ivory, but simply look and learn. My companions were to 
remain and rest themselves, and then return to Loanda when the 
others had come home. Sekeletu consulted me as to sending 
presents back to the governor and merchants of Loanda, but, not 
possessing much confidence in this Arab, I advised him to send 
a present by Pitsane, as he knew who ought to receive it. 
Since my arrival in England, information has been received 
from Mr. Grabriel that this party had arrived on the west coast, 
but that the ivory had been disposed of to some Portuguese mer¬ 
chants in the interior, and the men had been obliged to carry it 
down to Loanda. They had not been introduced to Mr. (Tabriel, 
but that gentleman, having learnt that they were in the city, 
went to them, and pronounced the names Pitsane, Mashauana, 
when all started up and crowded round him. When Mr. G. 
obtained an interpreter, he learned that they had been ordered 
by Sekeletu to be sm^e and go to my brother, as he termed him. 
