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January, from liis neighbors, had sent out circulars stating that he had 

 ^^'^'*- on hand a very large stock of a superior article, which must be 

 sold at a ruinous sacrifice, to effect a clearance before removing 

 from the jDremises. 



Liowa's father, who bore the same name, was chief of all 

 Ugara, and, having had a tiff with some Arabs, set out with the 

 intention of destroying Bagamoyo ; but his vaulting ambition 

 o'erleaped itself, and he and most of his followers perished on 

 the road. 



The feudatory chiefs of the two other divisions of Ugara, 

 taking advantage of the youth of the present Liowa on his suc- 

 ceeding his father, declared themselves independent, and thus 

 robbed him of more than two-thirds of his patrimony. 



Liowa presented me with a small goat, which became so 

 greatly attached to me that I had not the heart to kill her, but 

 decided on keeping her as a pet, and she soon knew me, and 

 learned to answer to her name, " Dinah." She and Leo were 

 inseparable, and both used to follow close uj^on my heels on the 

 march. 



ISTews now reached me that the direct road to the Malagarazi 

 ferry was blocked by large bodies of escaped Arab slaves, who 

 were well armed, and had turned their hand against every body. 

 They had been armed by their masters to fight against Miram- 

 bo, but had deserted, and joined a number of runaways, who 

 infested the vicinity of Unyanyembe. And now they were do- 

 ing their utmost to harm their former masters. 



Many of the atrocities ascribed to Mirambo should properly 

 be placed to the account of these ruflfians, who, bound by no 

 laws, human or divine, placed no limits upon the brutalities in 

 which they indulged. 



Liowa's was left on the 17th of January, and,.soon after start- 

 ing, we met Mrima Ngombe's men, who had gone on the day 

 before, and had turned back to place themselves under our pro- 

 tection, being afraid to proceed alone. 



Three miles down hill, and half a mile through swamp, was 

 all we managed before being fairly stopped by the rain, which 

 came down like a water-fall ; and the difficulty in getting the 

 men and donkeys to face it and cross the swamp to a dry place 

 for camping, was very great. The rain approached us like a 



