But they remained not to fight, but to watch their homes and stores of grain from robbers amongst their own people in case no Mazitu came! They gave a good hut, and sent off at once to let the chief at Pambe know of our arrival.

We heard the cocks crowing up there in the mountain as we passed in the morning.

Chimuna came in the evening, and begged me to remain a day in his village, Pamaloa, as he was the greatest chief the Chipeta had.

I told him all wished the same thing, and if I listened to each chief we should never get on, and the rains were near, but we had to stay over with him.
_26th October, 1866._--All the people came down to-day from Pambe, and crowded to see the strangers.

They know very little beyond their own affairs, though these require a good deal of knowledge, and we should be sorely put about if, without their skill, we had to maintain an existence here.