Three of his counsellors now visited us, and we gave them a handsome present for their chief, who came himself next morning and made us a present of a goat, a basket of boiled maize, and another of vetches.

A few miles above this the headman, Chilondo of Nyamasusa, apologized for not formerly lending us canoes.

"He was absent, and his children were to blame for not telling him when the Doctor passed; he did not refuse the canoes." The sight of our men, now armed with muskets, had a great effect.

Without any bullying, firearms command respect, and lead men to be reasonable who might otherwise feel disposed to be troublesome.

Nothing, however, our fracas with Mpende excepted, could be more peaceful than our passage through this tract of country in 1856.