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over his neighbors. I have to-day seen the turbulent Manko- 

 rongo, king of Usui, and Mirambo, that terrible phantom who 

 disturbs men's minds in Unyamwezi, through their embassies, 

 kneeling and tendering their tribute -to him. I saw over three 

 thousand soldiers of Mtesa nearly half civilized. I saw about a 

 hundred chiefs who might be classed in the same scale as the men 

 of Zanzibar and Oman, clad in as rich robes, and armed in the 

 same fashion, and have witnessed with astonishment such order 

 and law as is obtainable in semi-civilized countries. All this is 

 the result of a poor Muslim's labor; his name is Muley bin 

 Salim. He it was who first began teaching here the doctrines of 

 Islam. False and contemptible as these doctrines are, they are 

 preferable to the ruthless instincts of a savage despot, whom 

 Speke and Grant left wallowing in the blood of women, and I 

 honor the memory of Muley bin Salim Muslim and slave-trader 

 though he be the poor priest who has wrought this happy 

 change. With a strong desire to improve still more the character 

 of Mtesa, I shall begin building on the foundation stones laid by 

 Muley bin Salim. I shall destroy his belief in Islam, and teach 

 the doctrines of Jesus of Nazareth." 



HUMAN SACRIFICES. 



COL. LONG, an officer of the Egyptian army, under Gen. Gor- 

 don, had visited Mtesa nearly a year previous to Stanley's 

 arrival, and he describes the Emperor as exceedingly fierce and 

 brutal , altogether different from Stanley ' s conceptions of the great 

 African ruler. Col. Long traveled on horseback from Gondo- 

 koro to Mtesa's capital, and as the horse is an unknown animal 

 in Central Africa, the natives at first supposed that the gallant 

 Colonel and his steed were united in some mysterious manner, 

 and concluding from this that he was an extraordinary being they 

 gave him an unusually grand reception. Mtesa ordered thirty 

 human beings to be slain in honor of his visit, the victims 

 being selected from among prisoners captured in war. Col. 

 Long, being unaccompanied except by a few native servants, did 

 not consider it prudent to interfere with the shocking ceremony, 

 but was compelled to be an unwilling witness of this horrible 



