warning.

Crowds of carriers offered their services after we left the river.
Several sets of them placed so much confidence in us, as to decline
receiving payment at the end of the first day; they wished to work
another day, and so receive both days' wages in one piece. The young
headman of a new village himself came on with his men. The march was a
pretty long one, and one of the men proposed to lay the burdens down
beside a hut a mile or more from the next village. The headman scolded
the fellow for his meanness in wishing to get rid of our goods where we
could not procure carriers, and made him carry them on. The village, at
the foot of the cataracts, had increased very much in size and wealth
since we passed it on our way up. A number of large new huts had been
built; and the people had a good stock of cloth and beads. We could not
account for this sudden prosperity, until we saw some fine large canoes,
instead of the two old, leaky things which lay there before. This had
become a crossing-place for the slaves that the Portuguese agents were
carrying to Tette, because they were afraid to take them across nearer to
where the ship lay, about seven miles off. Nothing was more
disheartening than this conduct of the Manganja, in profiting by the
entire breaking up of their nation.

We reached the ship on the 8th of November, 1861, in a very weak
condition, having suffered more from hunger than on any previous trip.
Heavy rains commenced on the 9th, and continued several days; the river
rose rapidly, and became highly discoloured. Bishop Mackenzie came down
to the ship on the 14th, with some of the "Pioneer's" men, who had been
at Magomero for the benefit of their health, and also for the purpose of
assisting the Mission. The Bishop appeared to be in excellent spirits,
and thought that the future promised fair for peace and usefulness. The
Ajawa having been defeated and driven off while we were on the Lake, had
sent word that they desired to live at peace with the English. Many of
the Manganja had settled round Magomero, in order to be under the
protection of the Bishop; and it was hoped that the slave-trade would
soon cease in the highlands, and the people be left in the secure
enjoyment of their industry. The Mission, it was also anticipated, might
soon become, to a considerable degree, self-supporting, and raise certain
kinds of food, like the Portuguese of Senna and Quillimane. Mr. Burrup,
an energetic