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tant notes out of long tin horns. They seemed to feel that they were 

 doing a very noble thing, and might proudly march with an air of 

 triumph. But the instant the fellows caught a glimpse of the English 

 they darted off like mad into the forest.'' This was certainly a com- 

 pliment to the nation which Livingstone represented, and one which 

 would never have been paid to the Portuguese. The slaves were 

 released from their chains, and taken charge of by the mission, 



A few days afterwards the mission fixed their first station at 

 Magomero, the town of the chief Chigunda, and which lay on the 

 eastern slope of the Zomba range ; and the members of the expedition 

 bade them farewell. By way of parting advice, and in answer to an 

 inquiry of the Bishop's as to his protecting vi ct aniiis the Manganjas 

 from the marauding Ajawa, Livingstone declared most emphatically 

 that such a policy would lead to mischief. "You will be oppressed by 

 their importunities, but do not interfere with native quarrels." Had 

 such advice been heeded, the troubles which subsequently beset the 

 mission would probably have l)een avoided. 



On leaving the mission at Magomero, the Doctor with Charles 

 Livingstone and John Kirk started for Nyassa. The "Pioneer" was 

 left at Chibisa's, at the foot of the Murchison Cataracts, and a small 

 boat was carried along the banks for some forty miles until they could 

 put it on the upper Shire. Thence they proceeded to the Nyassa, arriv- 

 ing at the lake on the 2d of September. The months of September 

 and October which Livingstone spent on the lake were stormy, and 

 these mountain ranges drew down upon its surface fierce and sudden 

 gusts of wind. The squalls would come with a sudden rush, only 

 discernible by the white line of leaping breakers before they swooped 

 down upon the small boat with a roar, and often was Livingstone 

 caught and detained on his detour of the lake by these dangerous 

 storms. 



"Never before in Africa," he writes, "have we seen anything like 

 the dense population on the shores of Lake Nyassa. In the southern 

 part there was an almost unbroken chain of villages. On the beach of 

 well-nigh every little bay dark crowds were standing, gazing at the 

 novel sight of a boat under sail; and wherever we landed we were 

 surrounded in a few seconds by hundreds of men, women, and children, 



