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an opposite character. The rich show kindness to the poor, in 
expectation of services, and a poor person who has no relatives, 
will seldom be supplied even with water in illness, and, when dead, 
will be dragged out to be devoured by the hyaenas, instead of being 
buried. Relatives alone will condescend to touch a dead body. 
It would be easy to enumerate instances of inliumanity wliich I 
have witnessed. An interesting-looking girl came to my waggon - 
one day, in a state of nudity, and almost a skeleton. She was a 
captive from another tribe, and had been neglected by the man 
who claimed her. Having supplied her wants, I made inquiry for 
him, and found that he had been unsuccessful in raising a crop of 
corn, and had no food to give her. I volunteered to take her; 
but he said he would allow me to feed her and make her fat, and 
then take her away. I protested against this heartlessness; and 
as he said he could not part with his cliiLd,” I was precluded 
from attending to her wants. In a day or two she was lost sight 
of. She had gone out a little way from the town, and, being too 
weak to return, had been cruelly left to perish. Another day I 
saw a poor boy going to the water to driok, apparently in a 
starving condition. Tliis case I brought before the chief in 
council, and found that his emaciation was ascribed to disease and 
want combined. He was not one of the Makololo, but a member 
of a subdued tribe. I showed them that any one professing to 
claim a child, and refusing proper nutriment, would be guilty 
of liis death. Sekeletu decided that the owner of this boy should 
give up his alleged right, rather than destroy the clidd. When I 
took him, he was so far gone as to be in the cold stage of starva¬ 
tion, but was soon brought round by a little milk given three or 
four times a day. On leaving Linyanti, I handed liim over to the 
charge of his chief Sekeletu, who feeds his servants very weU. 
On the other hand, I have seen instances in which both men and 
women have taken up httle orphans, and carefully reared them 
as their own children. By a selection of cases of either kind, it 
would not be difficult to make these people appear excessively 
good or uncommonly bad. 
I stni possessed some of the coffee which I had brought from 
Angola, and some of the sugar wliich I had left in my waggon. 
So long as the sugar lasted, Sekeletu favoured me with his com¬ 
pany at meals; but the sugar soon came to a close. The 
