n a
year under their care, could not for the most part be taken to Morumbala;
for, though grieving much at losing their "English fathers," they would
be placed at a distance from their own tribe, among strangers and
possible enemies.

The families who could provide for themselves were left at Chibisa's, Mr.
Waller making the best terms in his power for them. It was sad to leave
them without having more thoroughly Christianized them, but the frequent
sicknesses of the clergy, the loss of the chief pastor, and the want of
some one to take the lead, had prevented their instruction from being all
that could have been hoped. They had become warmly attached to the
English, and had in many respects much improved, and it is hoped that
they may keep alive the memory of the training they have received, and
prepare the way for better things.

There were about twenty orphan boys, for whom Bishop Tozer undertook to
provide; but there were also ten or twelve women and girls, the former
old and infirm, the latter orphans, and these Mr. Waller could not bear
to abandon, so he carried them with him to Morumbala, and supported them
at his own expense, until at the end of five months it was decided to
give up Morumbala, and fix the head-quarters of the Central African
Mission at Zanzibar. Then, as it was not easy to convey the boys, or
provide for them there, Mr. Waller took the charge of them likewise, and,
with Dr. Livingstone's assistance, conveyed both them and the women and
children to Capetown, where he succeeded in procuring homes for them in
different families and mission schools or stations. All are now
Christians, and show themselves gentle, and susceptible of training and
education; nor have they much of that disposition so familiar to us in
the transplanted negroes of Western Africa. Four boys were brought to
England, but the climate would soon have been fatal to them, and it is
evident that Capetown or Natal and its dependencies must be the meeting
ground of the English and African races, since there alone can both
retain their vigour in the same climate.

Thus ended the first venture of the University mission, in the sacrifice
of four lives, which may be well esteemed as freely laid down in the
cause of the Gospel. Such lives and such deaths are the seed of the
Church. It is they that speak the loudest in calling for the fresh
labourers; and though the Zanzibar Mission has drifted far away from the
field of Mackenz