e--one of Dixon's best. "We are
friends, you know; we are all friends together." But although we were
willing to admit that, we could not give him our best rifle, so he went
off in high dudgeon. Early next morning, as we were commencing Divine
service, Pangola returned, sober. We explained to him that we wished to
worship God, and invited him to remain; he seemed frightened, and
retired: but after service he again importuned us for the rifle. It was
of no use telling him that we had a long journey before us, and needed it
to kill game for ourselves.--"He too must obtain meat for himself and
people, for they sometimes suffered from hunger." He then got sulky, and
his people refused to sell food except at extravagant prices. Knowing
that we had nothing to eat, they felt sure of starving us into
compliance. But two of our young men, having gone off at sunrise, shot a
fine waterbuck, and down came the provision market to the lower figure;
they even became eager to sell, but our men were angry with them for
trying compulsion, and would not buy. Black greed had outwitted itself,
as happens often with white cupidity; and not only here did the traits of
Africans remind us of Anglo-Saxons elsewhere: the notoriously ready world-
wide disposition to take an unfair advantage of a man's necessities shows
that the same mean motives are pretty widely diffused among all races. It
may not be granted that the same blood flows in all veins, or that all
have descended from the same stock; but the traveller has no doubt that,
practically, the white rogue and black are men and brothers.

Pangola is the child or vassal of Mpende. Sandia and Mpende are the only
independent chiefs from Kebrabasa to Zumbo, and belong to the tribe
Manganja. The country north of the mountains here in sight from the
Zambesi is called Senga, and its inhabitants Asenga, or Basenga, but all
appear to be of the same family as the rest of the Manganja and Maravi.
Formerly all the Manganja were united under the government of their great
chief, Undi, whose empire extended from Lake Shirwa to the River Loangwa;
but after Undi's death it fell to pieces, and a large portion of it on
the Zambesi was absorbed by their powerful southern neighbours the
Banyai. This has been the inevitable fate of every African empire from
time immemorial. A chief of more than ordinary ability arises and,
subduing all his less powerful neighbours, founds a kingdom, which he
governs m