NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI, excerpt

"When the wagon was left eight years before, several loose articles, as the medicine-chest, magic lantern, tools and books were given by Sekeletu, into the charge of his wives. Everything was found in safety... Sekeletu's wives, Seipone and Mantu, without being asked, cooked abundance of good beef, and baked a large supply of little cakes ... With gentle reproaches for not bringing Ma-Robert, or Mrs. Livingstone, they repeated some of the prattle of her children... "Are we never more to know anything of them but their names?"... It ought never to be forgotten that influence among the heathen can be acquired only by patient continuance in well-doing, and that good manners are as necessary among barbarians, as among the civilized." P.239-240,"The Makololo," NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI by David and Charles Livingstone (1865)