The first smile of an infant with its toothless gums is one of the pleasantest sights in nature.

It is innocence claiming kinship, and asking to be loved in its helplessness.
_28th May, 1872._--Many parts of this interior land present most inviting prospects for well-sustained efforts of private benevolence.
Karague, for instance, with its intelligent friendly chief Rumainyika (Speke's Rumanika), and Bouganda, with its teeming population, rain, and friendly chief, who could easily be swayed by an energetic prudent missionary.

The evangelist must not depend on foreign support other than an occasional supply of beads and calico; coffee is indigenous, and so is sugar-cane.

When detained by ulcerated feet in Manyuema I made sugar by pounding the cane in the common wooden mortar of the country, squeezing out the juice very hard and boiling it till thick; the defect it had was a latent acidity, for which I had no lime, and it soon all fermented.

I saw sugar afterwards at Ujiji made in the same way, and that kept for months.