488 "PKOPEKTY IN MAN." 



sorghum is never offered without some pulse, beans, or bean 

 leaves, or flowers • they seem to feel the need of it, or of pulse, 

 which is richer in flesh-formers than the porridge. 



" Last night a loud clapping of hands by the men was fol- 

 lowed by several half-suppressed screams by a woman. They 

 were quite eldritch, as if she could not get them out. Then 

 succeeded a lot of utterances as if she were in ecstasy, to which 

 a man responded, ' Moio, moio.' The utterances, so far as I 

 could catch, were in five-syllable snatches — abrupt and labored. 

 I wonder if this ' bubbling or boiling over ' has been preserved 

 as the form in which the true prophets of old gave forth their 

 ' burdens ? ' One sentence, frequently repeated towards the 

 close of the effusion, was ' linyama ufa,' ' flesh of the bow,' 

 showing that the Pythoness loved venison killed by the bow. 

 The people applauded and attended, hoping that rain would 

 follow her efforts. And next day she was duly honored by 

 drumming; and dancing;." 



Here, as in so many of the villages, Livingstone found the 

 idea of property in man and slave-trading. This belief in the 

 right to sell a man, while it seems very widely extended, the 

 doctor assures us, is found, except in the Arabs, only in two 

 families of the people in the eastern part of Africa. The Zulus, 

 as we know, and the Bechuanas, abhor slavery. The Waiyau 

 and the Manganja only welcome the emissaries of Zanzibar 

 markets with their degrading yokes. 



He was now nearing the Loangwa, and it would be refreshing 

 to see again, though so far up, the river which flowed away 

 through the familiar scenes of the Zambesi and on into the great 

 ocean. It would be like the opening of a window on the lone- 

 liness of a long imprisonment. One of the most beautiful things 

 in the character of Livingstone was the fondness with which he 

 cherished the sweet memories of scenes endeared by the associa- 

 tions of other days, and the readiness with which his mind 

 yielded to the guidance of the simplest incidents and most 

 ordinary objects, which led him in imagination among them 

 even when enduring severest hardships and burdened with most 

 onerous duties. He was not wandering in the wilds of Africa, 

 as some had unkindly hinted, because he did not appreciate the 

 endearments of home; no man ever loved the refinements of 



