CONTEXTS. 13 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 



Zambesi Expedition Unsatisfactory — Zanzibar— Trade from Zanzibar — The 

 Outfit — Rovuma Bay — Kiudany — The Makonde — Remarkable Vegetation 

 — Cutting Right Valiantly — Rage for Doctorship — Mohammedan Influence 

 — Lying Guides — Along the Rovuma — Troubles with Followers — Gum- 

 Copal Tree — Extravagant Tattooing — Top of the Fashion — At Nyoinano— 

 The Slave-Trade — The Makoa — A Woman Rescued — Horrors of the Trade 

 in Slaves — Currency for Africa — Extracts from Journal — A Deserted 

 Village — A Model Town of Africa 415 



CHAPTER XXI. 



APPROACHING NYASSA. 



A Guest of Mataka — The Waiyau — Livingstone and the Arabs — The Town 

 of Moembe — Iron Smelting — Causes of Desolation — Waiyau Described — 

 Livingstone's Desires — Slave-Trade : Does it Pay ? — Sepoys sent back — 

 Mountains — Springs — Iron — Approaching Nyassa — Livingstone's Review 

 of his Route — The Watershed — Geological Formations — Kindness of the 

 People — The Single Curse — An Example of Christians — Inconvenience of 

 being English — Arabs as Settlers — A Doubtful Question Settled — Pota 

 Mimba — Around the Foot of the Lake — No Earthquake Known — Sites of 

 Old Villages — Brooks — The First European Seen — "God Took Him" — 

 Wikatani Finds Relatives — Salt-Making — Eighty-five Slaves in a Pen — 

 Work Honorable 446 



CHAPTER XXII. 



ABOUT NYASSA. 



Geological Notes— The Marenga — Livingstone Preaching — Small-Pox— In- 

 veterate Thieves — Kirk's Range — Love Token — Black-haired Sheep — 

 Earthquakes — A Toper Chief— A Royal Escort — Whooping-Cough— The 

 Hottest Month — Methods of Fertilization — No Animals — Bows and Ar- 

 rows — Lip-Ring — A Prophetic Cow — Iron Works — Village of Smiths — 

 Alarm of Mazitu — Native Furnaces — Livingstone's Patience — A Disagree- 

 able Head Man — Level Country — Portuguese Travellers — A Herd of Buf- 

 faloes — Industry — Wild Figs — A Formidable Stockade — Trying News — 

 A Steady Faith 463 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



A MONTH OF WANT. 



Days of Anxiety — Manganja Blood — Manganja and Waiyau — Artisans — Na- 

 tive Agriculture — Beautiful Scenery — Iron Trade — An Elephant Hunter 

 — Difficulties — Carriers — Livingstone's Love for Nature — Memories — No 

 Food — A Splendid Valley of Lilies — Stockades — Sunday at Zeore — Rain- 

 Making — The Slave Idea in East Africa — Hedges of Bamboo — Bark Cloth 

 — Huts for the Spirits of the Dead — Contrasts in Character — Forests and 

 Rains — Beautiful Animals — The Zebra very Beautiful — The Loangwa — 

 Bad for Worse — The Babisa — A Miserable Set — Sorrows Multiplied — A 



