This we felt to be a misfortune, as the people all suspect a man who comes telling his own tale; but there being no help for it, we went on, and found the head man of a village on the rivulet Kalomba, called Kangenke, a very different man from what his enemy represented.

We found, too, that the idea of buying and selling took the place of giving for friendship.

As I had nothing with which to purchase food except a parcel of beads which were preserved for worse times, I began to fear that we should soon be compelled to suffer more from hunger than we had done.

The people demanded gunpowder for every thing.

If we had possessed any quantity of that article, we should have got on well, for here it is of great value.