Moemba Rallied Him For Coming On A Wildgoose Chase.
"Here Are Your Canoes Left With Me, Your Men Have All Been Paid, And
The Englishmen Are Now Asking Me To Sell My Canoes." Sinamane Said
Little To Us; Only Observing That He Had Been Deceived By His
Follower.
A single remark of his chief's caused the foolish fellow
to leave suddenly, evidently much frightened and crestfallen.
Sinamane
Had been very kind to us, and, as he was looking on when we
gave our present to Moemba, we made him also an additional offering
of some beads, and parted good friends. Moemba, having heard that we
had called the people of Sinamane together to tell them about our
Saviour's mission to man, and to pray with them, associated the idea
of Sunday with the meeting, and, before anything of the sort was
proposed, came and asked that he and his people might be "sundayed"
as well as his neighbours; and be given a little seed wheat, and
fruit-tree seeds; with which request of course we very willingly
complied. The idea of praying direct to the Supreme Being, though
not quite new to all, seems to strike their minds so forcibly that it
will not be forgotten. Sinamane said that he prayed to God, Morungo,
and made drink-offerings to him. Though he had heard of us, he had
never seen white men before.
Beautiful crowned cranes, named from their note "ma-wang," were seen
daily, and were beginning to pair.
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