On asking if Mazitu wore clothes like us he told some untruths, and, what has been an unusual thing, began to beg powder and other things.

I told him how other chiefs had treated us, which made him ashamed.

He represented the country in front to the N.W.to be quite impassable from want of food: the Mazitu had stripped it of all provisions, and the people were living on what wild fruits they could pick up.
_2nd November, 1866._--Kangene is very disagreeable naturally, and as we have to employ five men as carriers, we are in his power.
We can scarcely enter into the feelings of those who are harried by marauders.

Like Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries harassed by Highland Celts on one side and by English Marchmen on the other, and thus kept in the rearward of civilisation, these people have rest neither for many days nor for few.

When they fill their garners they can seldom reckon on eating the grain, for the Mazitu come when the harvest is over and catch as many able-bodied young persons as they can to carry away the corn.