386 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



The murdering was continued nearly all day ; seventeen villages 

 were burnt, and many hundreds of the natives killed. Living- 

 stone saved scores who rushed to him for protection, the Arabs 

 not daring to murder them in his presence. He exerted himself 

 to the utmost to stop the bloodshed, and also ministered to the 

 wounded, and showed a friendship which the natives had never 

 known before. An old man, called Kabono, came to him and 

 asked for his wife, who had taken shelter, like many others, 

 under Livingstone's protection. Kabono expected him to keep 

 her as a slave, according to the custom of the Arabs, and even 

 the natives, unless he could buy her back ; he was, therefore, not 

 prepared for the good luck which awaited him. Turning to the 

 old woman, Livingstone asked her if Kabono was her husband ; 

 she went to the old man, and putting her arms lovingly around 

 him, replied, " Yes." Livingstone gave them, in addition to his 

 blessings, five strings of beads with which to buy food, as all 

 their stores had been destroyed with their home. She bowed 

 down and put her forehead to the ground as an expression of her 

 thanks, Kabono did the same ; tears stood in their eyes as they 

 went away. 



FORCED TO RETURN TO UJIJI. 



ALL the canoes available were taken by the Arabs, so that, how- 

 ever friendly the natives might be with Livingstone, he could not 

 get a single boat ; but this was not his worst misfortune, for the 

 hostilities now inaugurated so frightened the men (who were 

 Banian slaves) sent to him from Zanzibar, that they ran off and 

 made their way as fast as possible to the coast. Here was a ter- 

 rible dilemma to face ; nothing but a return to Ujiji, nearly six 

 hundred miles distant, was possible, and accordingly, on July 

 20th, he again turned his back on the Lualaba without having 

 made a last exploration of its source or outletc 



A few Arabs and friendly Manyuemas accompanied him back 

 to Bambarre, but the country was so excited that traveling was 

 extremely dangerous. They were frequently waylaid and attacked 

 by scouting parties of Manyuemas, but happily without serious 

 results. Twice in one day Livingstone miraculously escaped 



