id not produce disease. We spent one night in it, and
suffered no ill effects, though we fully expected an attack of fever.
Next morning every particle of white paint on both ships was so deeply
blackened, that it could not be cleaned by scrubbing with soap and water.
The brass was all turned to a bronze colour, and even the iron and ropes
had taken a new tint. This is an additional proof that malaria and
offensive effluvia are not always companions. We did not suffer more
from fever in the mangrove swamps, where we inhaled so much of the heavy
mousey smell that it was distinguishable in the odour of our shirts and
flannels, than we did elsewhere.

We tarried in the foul and blackening emanations from the marsh because
we had agreed to receive on board about thirty poor orphan boys and
girls, and a few helpless widows whom Bishop Mackenzie had attached to
his Mission. All who were able to support themselves had been encouraged
by the Missionaries to do so by cultivating the ground, and they now
formed a little free community. But the boys and girls who were only
from seven to twelve years of age, and orphans without any one to help
them, could not be abandoned without bringing odium on the English name.
The effect of an outcry by some persons in England, who knew nothing of
the circumstances in which Bishop Mackenzie was placed, and who certainly
had not given up their own right of appeal to the sword of the
magistrate, was, that the new head of the Mission had gone to extremes in
the opposite direction from his predecessor; not even protesting against
the one monstrous evil of the country, the slave-trade. We believed that
we ought to leave the English name in the same good repute among the
natives that we had found it; and in removing the poor creatures, who had
lived with Mackenzie as children with a father, to a land where the
education he began would be completed, we had the aid and sympathy of the
best of the Portuguese, and of the whole population. The difference
between shipping slaves and receiving these free orphans struck us as
they came on board. As soon as permission to embark was given, the rush
into the boat nearly swamped her--their eagerness to be safe on the
"Pioneer's" deck had to be repressed.

Bishop Tozer had already left for Quillimane when we took these people
and the last of the Universities' Missionaries on board and proceeded to
the Zambesi. It was in high flood. We have always spoke