erior to his own, to which an
appeal could be made; for in him Church and State were, in the
disorganized state of the country, virtually united. It seemed to him to
be clearly his duty to try and rescue these kidnapped members of the
Mission family. He accordingly invited the veteran Makololo to go with
him on this somewhat hazardous errand. Nothing could have been proposed
to them which they would have liked better, and they went with alacrity
to eat the sheep of the Anguru, only regretting that the enemy did not
keep cattle as well. Had the matter been left entirely in their hands,
they would have made a clean sweep of that part of the country; but the
Bishop restrained them, and went in an open manner, thus commending the
measure to all the natives, as one of justice. This deliberation,
however, gave the delinquents a chance of escape.

The missionaries were successful; the offending village was burned, and a
few sheep and goats were secured which could not be considered other than
a very mild punishment for the offence committed; the headman,
Muana-somba, afraid to retain the prisoners any longer, forthwith
liberated them, and they returned to their homes. This incident took
place at the time we were at the Ruo and during the rains, and proved
very trying to the health of the missionaries; they were frequently
wetted, and had hardly any food but roasted maize. Mr. Scudamore was
never well afterwards. Directly on their return to Magomero, the Bishop
and Mr. Burrup, both suffering from diarrhoea in consequence of wet,
hunger, and exposure, started for Chibisa's to go down to the Ruo by the
Shire. So fully did the Bishop expect a renewal of the soaking wet from
which he had just returned, that on leaving Magomero he walked through
the stream. The rivulets were so swollen that it took five days to do a
journey that would otherwise have occupied only two days and a half.

None of the Manganja being willing to take them down the river during the
flood, three Makololo canoe-men agreed to go with them. After paddling
till near sunset, they decided to stop and sleep on shore; but the
mosquitoes were so numerous that they insisted on going on again; the
Bishop, being a week behind the time he had engaged to be at the Ruo,
reluctantly consented, and in the darkness the canoe was upset in one of
the strong eddies or whirlpools, which suddenly boil up in flood time
near the outgoing branches of the river; clothing, m