k being native beer instead of coffee. Rest
followed till five, when there were two hours' more work, nearly till
sunset, which, even on the longest day, was before half-past six; then
tea, evensong, and bed.

The great need was of some female element, to train and deal with the
women and girls; and there was an earnest desire for the arrival of the
sisters. But, in the meantime, the occupation of Magomero proved far
from peaceful. The Ajawa were always coming down upon the Man-gnaja to
burn their villages and steal slaves, and the Man-gnaja called upon the
whites as invincible allies.

The Bishop and his clergy (Livingstone had now left them, and gone on to
Lake Nyassa) thought that to present a resolute front to the Ajawa would
drive them back for good and all; and that the Man-gnaja could be bound
over henceforth to give up slave-dealing, and, on this condition, they
did not refuse their assistance. Subsequent events have led to the
belief that this warfare of the Ajawa was really the advance of one of
those great tides of nations that take place from time to time, and that
they were a much finer people than the cowardly and false Man-gnaja; but,
of course, a small company of strangers, almost ignorant of the language,
and communicating with the natives through a released and educated negro,
could not enter into the state of things, and could only struggle against
the immediate acts of oppression that came before them.

There were thus about three expeditions to drive back the Ajawa and
deliver the rescued slaves--bloodless expeditions, for the sight of the
white men and their guns was quite enough to produce a general flight,
and a large colony of the rescued had gathered at Magomero in the course
of a few months. Meantime another clergyman, the Rev. H. De Wint Burrup,
with his newly-married wife and three lay members of the mission, had
arrived at Capetown, and, leaving Mrs. Burrup there with Miss Mackenzie,
had come on to join the others. Mr. Burrup and Mr. Dickinson (a surgeon)
actually made their way in canoes and river boats from Quillinane up to
Chibisa's, where the _Pioneer_ was lying, Dr. Livingstone having just
returned from his three months' expedition.

It was an absolute exploit in travelling, but a very perilous one, since
these open boats, in the rain and on the low level of the river, exposed
them to the greatest danger of fever; and there can be no doubt that
their constitutions were injured