CHAPTER XXIII. 



A MONTH OF WANT. 



Days of Anxiety— Manganja Blood — Manganja and Waiyau — Artizans— Native 

 Agriculture — Beautiful Scenery — Iron Trade — An Elephant Hunter — Difficul- 

 ties — 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 Mopane Forest — Nyarmazi 

 — Trading with a Woman — Loss of Goats — Experience with a Guide — The Hills 

 Again — Bee Hunters — Want, Want, Want! — Noble Utterances — "Always 

 Hungry " — Elephant Hunting — Sivord Hunting — Desolate Land — No Bread — 

 Hunger — Escape from a Cobra— The Loss of the Dog — Mushrooms — All the 

 Medicine Lost — The Worst of All — Livingstone's Gentleness — " Real Biting 

 Hunger" — Beads as Currency — The Chambese at Last. 



The two days in the little village of Kalumbe were full of 

 anxiety. The women, who are the prizes always envied with 

 most covetous eyes by the Mazitu, had been sent away, and the 

 men moved about among their rude furnaces and forges with a 

 watchfulness which expressed the seriousness of the occasion 

 more emphatically than anything they might have said. The 

 Manganja blood was clearly seen in the industry with which 

 they handled the implements of their rude art. The civilities 

 of this race were always appreciated as truly refreshing after 

 being annoyed by the impudence and impositions of the Waiyau, 

 who it could be clearly seen felt themselves the dominant race 

 in the country. One of the most interesting privileges of the 

 traveller is the opportunity for observing the differences which 

 distinguish the tribes, all alike as they may be in their general 

 conditions of ignorance and degradation. And there was rarely 

 noticed a more decided difference in those so intimately associated 

 than distinguished these two races. As a rule, the Manganja 

 are extremely clever in all the savage arts and manufactures. 

 Their looms turn out a strong serviceable cotton cloth ; their iron 

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