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[Chap. 



March, 

 1874. 



cloth to lay in a stock. To save himself trouble, he bought a 

 couple of goats instead, as they could easily be procured in the 

 market, while fowls could only be obtained by a house-to-house 

 visitation. 



One would scarcely have thought that his stupidity would 

 have led him into still further errors. But he explained that 

 one goat was killed the day fever attacked me, and that, on the 

 meat turning bad, he killed the other, in order to have some- 

 thing ready for me if I got better. That having also become 

 too " high " to eat, it was plain that of the two goats not a sin- 

 gle mouthful would fall to my share. Happily the Wajiji were 

 persuaded to sell me a good milch-goat ; and her milk was as 

 nourishing and good for me at that time as meat would have 

 been. 



ir.lI.JI I'OTTERV. 



The next two days saw us nearly round the bay. On the 

 first night we camped at the mouth of a river close to the spot 

 where Stanley landed when he came south from Ujiji with 

 Livingstone, on his return to Unyanyembe. Here we met a 

 few wretched natives, who declared themselves to be in great 

 fear of a party of Wanyamwezi slave-hunters who had built 

 a village on the shore, from which they used to sally forth and 

 harass the whole surrounding country. 



On the second day I received a visit from the chief of these 

 slave-traders, and he seemed quite annoyed at my not having 

 brouirht corn and «:oats to trade for slaves. The natives then 



