hing of the Bishop, we concluded
that he had heard from his surgeon of our detention, and had deferred his
journey. He arrived there five days after, on the 12th.

After paying our Senna men, as they wished to go home, we landed them
here. All were keen traders, and had invested largely in native iron-
hoes, axes, and ornaments. Many of the hoes and spears had been taken
from the slaving parties whose captives we liberated; for on these
occasions our Senna friends were always uncommonly zealous and active.
The remainder had been purchased with the old clothes we had given them
and their store of hippopotamus meat: they had no fear of losing them, or
of being punished for aiding us. The system, in which they had been
trained, had eradicated the idea of personal responsibility from their
minds. The Portuguese slaveholders would blame the English alone, they
said; they were our servants at the time. No white man on board could
purchase so cheaply as these men could. Many a time had their eloquence
persuaded a native trader to sell for a bit of dirty worn cloth things
for which he had, but a little before, refused twice the amount of clean
new calico. "Scissors" being troubled with a cough at night, received a
present of a quilted coverlet, which had seen a good deal of service. A
few days afterwards, a good chance of investing in hoes offering itself,
he ripped off both sides, tore them into a dozen pieces, and purchased
about a dozen hoes with them.

We entered the Zambesi on the 11th of January, and steamed down towards
the coast, taking the side on which we had come up; but the channel had
changed to the other side during the summer, as it sometimes does, and we
soon grounded. A Portuguese gentleman, formerly a lieutenant in the
army, and now living on Sangwisa, one of the islands of the Zambesi, came
over with his slaves, to aid us in getting the ship off. He said
frankly, that his people were all great thieves, and we must be on our
guard not to leave anything about. He next made a short speech to his
men, told them he knew what thieves they were, but implored them not to
steal from us, as we would give them a present of cloth when the work was
done. "The natives of this country," he remarked to us, "think only of
three things, what they shall eat and drink, how many wives they can
have, and what they may steal from their master, if not how they may
murder him." He always slept with a loaded musket by hi