who retaliate.  Arabs and Waiyau invited into the country by their selling, foster feuds, and war and depopulation ensue.  We mention the Bible—­future state—­prayer:  advise union, that they should unite as one family to expel enemies, who came first as slave-traders, and ended by leaving the country a wilderness.  In reference to union, we showed that they ought to have seen justice done to the man who lost his wife and child at their very doors; but this want of cohesion is the bane of the Manganja.  If the evil does not affect themselves they don’t care whom it injures; and Gombwa confirmed this, by saying that when he routed Khambuiri’s people, the villagers west of him fled instead of coming to his aid.

We hear that many of the Manganja up here are fugitives from Nyassa.

10th October, 1866.—­Kawa and his people were with us early this morning, and we started from Tamiala with them.  The weather is lovely, and the scenery, though at present tinged with yellow from the grass, might be called glorious.  The bright sun and delicious air are quite exhilarating.  We passed a fine flowing rivulet, called Levize, going into the Lake, and many smaller runnels of delicious cold water.  On resting by a dark sepulchral grove, a tree attracted the attention, as nowhere else seen:  it is called Bokonto, and said to bear eatable fruit.  Many fine flowers were just bursting into full blossom.  After about four hours’ march we put up at Chitimba, the village of Kangomba, and were introduced by Kawa, who came all the way for the purpose.

11th October, 1866.—­A very cold morning, with a great bank of black clouds in the east, whence the wind came.  Therm. 59 deg.; in hut 69 deg.  The huts are built very well.  The roof, with the lower part plastered, is formed so as not to admit a ray of light, and the only visible mode of ingress for it is by the door.  This case shows that winter is cold:  on proposing to start, breakfast was not ready:  then a plan was formed to keep me another day at a village close by, belonging to one Kulu, a man of Kauma, to whom we go next.  It was effectual, and here we are detained another day.  A curiously cut-out stool is in my hut, made by the Mkwisa, who are south-west of this:  it is of one block, but hollowed out, and all the spaces indicated are hollow too:  about 2-1/2 feet long by 1-1/2 foot high.

[Illustration:  Curiously cut-out stool of one block of wood hollowed out.]

12th October, 1866.—­We march westerly, with a good deal of southing.  Kulu gave us a goat, and cooked liberally for us all.  He set off with us as if to go to Kauma’s in our company, but after we had gone a couple of miles he slipped behind, and ran away.  Some are naturally mean, and some naturally noble:  the mean cannot help showing their nature, nor can the noble; but the noble-hearted must enjoy life most.  Kulu got a cloth, and he gave us at least its value; but he thought he had got more than he gave, and so by running away that he had done us nicely, without troubling himself to go and introduce us to Kauma.  I usually request a headman of a village to go with us.  They give a good report of us, if for no other reason than for their own credit, because no one likes to be thought giving his countenance to people other than respectable, and it costs little.