The havildar begged still to go on with me, and I consented, though he is a drag on the party, but he will count in any difficulty.
Abraham recognised his uncle among the crowds who came to see us.

On making himself known he found that his mother and two sisters had been sold to the Arabs after he had been enslaved.

The uncle pressed him to remain, and Mataka urged, and so did another uncle, but in vain.

I added my voice, and could have given him goods to keep him afloat a good while, but he invariably replied, "How can I stop where I have no mother and no sister ?" The affection seems to go to the maternal side.
I suggested that he might come after he had married a wife, but I fear very much that unless some European would settle, none of these Nassick boys will come to this country.

It would be decidedly better if they were taught agriculture in the simplest form, as the Indian.
Mataka would have liked to put his oxen to use, but Abraham could not help him with that.