{4} As we expected another steamer to be at Kongone in November, it was impossible for us to remain in Sesheke more than one month.

Before our departure, the chief and his principal men expressed in a formal manner their great desire to have English people settled on the Batoka highlands.

At one time he proposed to go as far as Phori, in order to select a place of residence; but as he afterwards saw reasons for remaining where he was, till his cure was completed, he gave orders to those sent with us, in the event of our getting, on our return, past the rapids near Tette, not to bring us to Sesheke, but to send forward a messenger, and he with the whole tribe would come to us.

Dr.Kirk being of the same age, Sekeletu was particularly anxious that he should come and live with him.

He said that he would cut off a section of the country for the special use of the English; and on being told that in all probability their descendants would cause disturbance in his country, he replied, "These would be only domestic feuds, and of no importance." The great extent of uncultivated land on the cool and now unpeopled highlands has but to be seen to convince the spectator how much room there is, and to spare, for a vastly greater population than ever, in our day, can be congregated there.
On the last occasion of our holding Divine service at Sesheke, the men were invited to converse on the subject on which they had been addressed.
So many of them had died since we were here before, that not much probability existed of our all meeting again, and this had naturally led to the subject of a future state.