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"Greeting, Macu to say that you

are welcoive

you permission to trade as much as you will in this town, since he knows

that your dealings are always fair"

I returned ht a

little present for the King which I would deliver when it pleased him

to receive me Then I invited Maputa, to whohted hion-box till we

came to the selected outspan

This, by the way, proved, to be a very good place indeed, a little

valley full of grass for the cattle--for by the King's order it had not

been grazed--with a strea down it Moreover

it overlooked a great open space iate

of the town, so that I could see everything that went on and all who

arrived or departed

"You will be co your

stay, which we hope will be long, since, although there will soon be

a iven orders that none except

your own servants are to enter this valley"