I must also tell you they are dangerous in your hands, in consequence of your being ignorant of their properties.

If you take my advice you won't meddle with them until the two children you wish educated have learnt the use of them in England; and if I have to take boys from this, I hope they will be of your family." He said, "You speak like a father to us, and we very much approve.

Here is a pot of pombe; I did not give you one yesterday." 11th .-- To-day, the king having graciously granted permission, we went out shooting, but saw only a few buffalo tracks.
12th .-- The Kamraviona was sent to inquire after our health, and to ascertain from me all I knew respecting the origin of Kamrasi's tribe, the distribution of countries, and the seat of the government.

I sent the king a diagram, painted in various colours, with full explanations of everything, and asked permission to send two more of my men in search of Bombay, who had now been absent twenty days.

The reply was, that if Bombay did not return within four days, Kamrasi would send other men after him on the fifth day; and, in the meantime, he sent one pot of pombe as a token of his kind regard.
13th .-- The Kamraviona was sent to inquire after our health, to ask for medicine for himself, and to inquire more into the origin of his race.