Two men, Arabs it was said, came to Chibue's and were there killed, and Kasonso must go to see about it.

The people who go carry food with them, evidently not intending to live by plunder this time.
While the peacemakers are gone I am employing time in reading Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' and calculating different positions which have stood over in travelling.

I don't succeed well in the Baeulungu dialect.
The owners of huts lent to strangers have a great deal of toil in consequence; they have to clean them after the visitors have withdrawn; then, in addition to this, to clean themselves, all soiled by the dust left by the lodgers; their bodies and clothes have to be cleansed afterwards--they add food too in all cases of acquaintanceship, and then we have to remember the labour of preparing that food.

My remaining here enables me to observe that both men and women are in almost constant employment.

The men are making mats, or weaving, or spinning; no one could witness their assiduity in their little affairs and conclude that they were a lazy people.