ain drew up the net which had taken
nothing, decided that the only mission which would suit the Fuegians must
be afloat, and went on to Payta in the _Clymene_.

While in Peru, he met with a Spanish lady, who asked if he knew a friend
of hers who came from Genoa, and then proceeded to inquire which was the
largest city, Genoa or Italy, and if Europe was not a little on this side
of Spain, while a priest asked if London was a part of France. After
spending a little time in distributing Bibles in Peru, he made his way
home by the way of Panama, and on his arrival made an attempt to interest
the Moravians in the cause so near his heart, thinking that what they had
done in Greenland proved their power of dealing with that savage apathy
that springs from inclemency of climate, but the mission was by them
pronounced impracticable.

In the meantime, his former ground, Port Natal, was in a more hopeful
state. Tremendous battles had been fought between Dingarn and the boers;
but, in 1839, Panda, Dingarn's brother, finding his life threatened, went
over to the enemy, carrying 4,000 men with him, and thus turned the
scale. Dingarn was routed, fled, and was murdered by the tribe with whom
he had taken refuge, and Panda became Zulu king, while the boers occupied
Natal, and founded the city of Pieter Maritzburg as the capital of a
Republic; but the disputes between them and the Zulus led to the
interference of the Governor of the Cape, and finally Natal was made a
British colony, with the Tugela for a boundary; and, as Panda's
government was exceedingly violent and bloody, his subjects were
continually flocking across the river to put themselves under British
protection, and were received on condition of paying a small yearly rate
for every hut in each kraal, and conforming themselves to English law, so
far as regarded the suppression of violence and theft. One of the
survivors of Gardiner's old pupils, meeting a gentleman who was going to
England, sent him the following message: "Tell Cappan Garna he promise to
come again if his hair was as white as his shirt, and we are waiting for
him;" and he added a little calabash snuff-box as a token. But the
Captain had made his promise to return contingent upon the Kaffirs of his
settlement taking no part in the war, and they, poor things, had, with
the single exception of his own personal attendant, Umpondombeni, broken
this condition; so that he did not deem himself bound by it. Moreo