I asked him if he would obey an order from his chief to hunt the Manganja, and he said, 'No.' I hope he won't.

In the event of any mission coming into the country of Mataka, he will go there.

I gave him paper to write to you,[24] and, commending him to the chiefs, bade the poor boy farewell.

I was sorry to part with him, but the Arabs tell the Waiyau chiefs that our object in liberating slaves is to make them our own and turn them to our religion.

I had declared to them, through Wikatani as interpreter, that they never became our slaves, and were at liberty to go back to their relatives if they liked; and now it was impossible to object to Wikatani going without stultifying my own statements." It is only necessary to repeat that Wikatani and Chuma had been liberated from the slavers by Dr.Livingstone and Bishop Mackenzie in 1861; they were mere children when set free.
We must not forget to record the fact that when Mr.Young reached Maponda, two years afterwards, to ascertain whether the Doctor really had been murdered, as Musa declared, he was most hospitably received by the chief, who had by this time a great appreciation of everything English.] The lines of tattoo of the different tribes serve for ornaments, and are resorted to most by the women; it is a sort of heraldry closely resembling the Highland tartans.
[Illustration: Manganja and Machinga women (from a Drawing by the late Dr.Meller).] FOOTNOTES: [16] Coal was shown to a group of natives when first the _Pioneer_ ascended the river Shire.