112 INFORMATION RESPECTING LIVINGSTONE. 



curious story, whicli was taken down by me on the 

 spot as it came from the hps of the interpreter ; and 

 from the close cross-examination he underwent, Mr. 

 Young and myself were quite satisfied that he was 

 telling the truth. He said that a man calling himself 

 an Englishman had arrived here at the end of the 

 winter from Mataka, which he pointed out as be- 

 ing in a north-easterly direction ; that he had gone 

 up to a village called Pemanyinnee, where Karongo 

 was chief, and from which the Arabs used to cross 

 the lake when they went to buy people, with the 

 intention of getting a boat to put him across the 

 lake; but failing to get one he had returned, remained 

 a few days, and had then gone on to Makata and 

 Mapoonda, villages further south. 



When asked to describe him, the man said he wore 

 blue serge trousers and a flannel shirt, the same as Mr. 

 Young had on him, and a cap with a peak to it. He 

 was an older man than Mr. Young, had some white 

 hairs on. his head, wore no hair on his jaws, but had 

 some on his upper lip. He always let go any 

 slaves he came across, and never bought any people 

 himself He was then shewn Livingstone's photo- 

 graph, and at once said, " That's him." He further 

 stated that the white man carried a breech-loading 

 rifle, a gun, and a revolver, all of which he distinctly 

 described. On seeing my Rigby he said the white 

 man's gun opened just like that. He had many boxes 

 with him ; two of them small. In one he kept 

 something with which he looked at the sun, and the 

 other contained a bottle of white water that did not 

 wet the finger when put into it. I at once knew this 



