through: tiif forests of kimawenzi ; $c. 295 
them. As I was not strong enough to force my way s 
I returned once more to Taveita and busied myself with 
collecting in the vicinity. 
I also received a deputation of Marahu and ftombo 
people, who came to make peace after our skirmish of 
the week before. They declared it had arisen through 
a misapprehension of my intentions. They now feared 
that having offended me I might bewitch their land 
from a distance, and -wished to exchange presents, 
because I was a powerful magician, who turned aside 
the bullets and spears of his enemies. I laughed at 
all pretensions to supernatural power, but tried to 
explain that it was always silty to quarrel with white 
men, who must get the better of any struggle, not 
because they practised witchcraft, but because they had 
better guns than black men and knew how to use 
them. I was glad to hear that no lives were lost, and 
would willingly make friends. Accordingly I accepted 
a small bullock they had brought and gave them in 
return gay cloths and bags of beads with which they 
retreated joyfully 5 extolling the power and generosity 
of the white man, who never made slaves. 
