indifference, adding, “But we don’t know,” or, “We do not understand.”  My medical intercourse with them enabled me to ascertain their moral status better than a mere religious teacher could do.  They do not attempt to hide the evil, as men often do, from their spiritual instructors; but I have found it difficult to come to a conclusion on their character.  They sometimes perform actions remarkably good, and sometimes as strangely the opposite.  I have been unable to ascertain the motive for the good, or account for the callousness of conscience with which they perpetrate the bad.  After long observation, I came to the conclusion that they are just such a strange mixture of good and evil as men are every where else.  There is not among them an approach to that constant stream of benevolence flowing from the rich to the poor which we have in England, nor yet the unostentatious attentions which we have among our own poor to each other.  Yet there are frequent instances of genuine kindness and liberality, as well as actions of an opposite character.  The rich show kindness to the poor in expectation of services, and a poor person who has no relatives will seldom be supplied even with water in illness, and, when dead, will be dragged out to be devoured by the hyaenas instead of being buried.  Relatives alone will condescend to touch a dead body.  It would be easy to enumerate instances of inhumanity which I have witnessed.  An interesting-looking girl came to my wagon one day in a state of nudity, and almost a skeleton.  She was a captive from another tribe, and had been neglected by the man who claimed her.  Having supplied her wants, I made inquiry for him, and found that he had been unsuccessful in raising a crop of corn, and had no food to give her.  I volunteered to take her; but he said he would allow me to feed her and make her fat, and then take her away.  I protested against his heartlessness; and, as he said he could “not part with his child,” I was precluded from attending to her wants.  In a day or two she was lost sight of.  She had gone out a little way from the town, and, being too weak to return, had been cruelly left to perish.  Another day I saw a poor boy going to the water to drink, apparently in a starving condition.  This case I brought before the chief in council, and found that his emaciation was ascribed to disease and want combined.  He was not one of the Makololo, but a member of a subdued tribe.  I showed them that any one professing to claim a child, and refusing proper nutriment, would be guilty of his death.  Sekeletu decided that the owner of this boy should give up his alleged right rather than destroy the child.  When I took him he was so far gone as to be in the cold stage of starvation, but was soon brought round by a little milk given three or four times a day.  On leaving Linyanti I handed him over to the charge of his chief, Sekeletu, who feeds his servants very well.  On the other hand, I have seen instances in which both men and women have taken up little orphans and carefully reared them as their own children.  By a selection of cases of either kind, it would not be difficult to make these people appear excessively good or uncommonly bad.