Chuma, for instance, believes now that he was caught and sold by the Manganja, and not by his own Waiyau, though it was just in the opposite way that he became a slave, and he asserted and believes that no Waiyau ever sold his own child.
When reminded that Wikatani was sold by his own father, he denied it; then that the father of Chimwala, another boy, sold him, his mother, and sister, he replied, "These are Machinga." This is another tribe of Waiyau; but this showed that he was determined to justify his countrymen at any rate.

I mention this matter, because though the Oxford and Cambridge Mission have an advantage in the instruction of boys taken quite young from slavers, yet these same boys forget the evils to which they were exposed and from which they were rescued, and it is even likely that they will, like Chuma, deny that any benefit was conferred upon them by their deliverance.

This was not stated broadly by Chuma, but his tone led one to believe that he was quite ready to return to the former state.
_5th October, 1866._--The chief came early with an immense basket of beer, as usual.

We were ready to start: he did not relish this; but I told him it was clear that his people set very light by his authority.
He declared that he would force them or go himself, with his wives as carriers.

This dawdling and guzzling had a bad effect on my remaining people.