CHAPTER XXVIII. 



MANYUEMA. 



Manyuema Country — The Paramount Chief— Independent Villages — Living- 

 stone's Object — Leaves Bambarre — Westward — Splendid Scenery — Villages — 

 Architecture of Manyuema — Character of the People — Hidden Villages — 

 Curiosity of Villagers — Evil Influence of Traders — Prejudices Aroused — 

 Return to Bambarre — Ujiji Hood — Five Hundred Guns — Livingstone's Com- 

 panion—Sets out from Bambarre Second Time — Appearance of Country — Huts 

 in Trees — Elephant Traps — Bloody Feuds — Omnipresent Love — Newly Married 

 Couple — Dreadful Swamps — Timely Hospitality — Promise of Letter — Hindered 

 Again — Slave-Traders' Barbarities — Dreadful Murders — Katoma's Camp — De- 

 serted by Followers — Three only Faithful — Singing Frog — A Nursing Fish — 

 Musicians — Livingstone's Resolution — Chuma, Susi and Gardner — A Man 

 Killed — Meets Mohamad Bogharib— A New Affliction — Disappointment — Re- 

 turn to Bambarre — Long Sickness — Manyuema Dreadful Cannibals— Blood- 

 thirsty — Delight in Murder — The Soko — Soko Hunt — Soko and Leopard — 

 Soko and Lion — " Soko is a Man " — Impatience — Despondency — Hope Re- 

 vived — Men and Letter Arrive from Zanzibar — New Difficulties — Trouble with 

 New Men — Another Start — Conscience Clear — His Plan — His Longing — A 

 Young Soko— On New Ground — Charming Scenery — Village Happiness — 

 Trials— The Lualaba at Last. 



Feeling himself as well rested as he could hope to be, Dr. 

 Livingstone was naturally impatient to be about the work which 

 lay before him ; but it would be an infliction of unnecessary 

 weariness on the reader if we should lead him, step by step, with 

 the great traveller, detaining him where the hero was detained 

 and compelling him to traverse over and over the same ground, 

 as the actor of the story was obliged to do. It should be borne 

 in mind that all the incidents in these eventful years were within 

 a circle of hardly one hundred miles diameter — a wild moun- 

 tainous district, inhabited by people who acknowledged no 

 paramount chief, hundreds of independent villages, between 

 which no sort of sympathy or intercourse existed, where every 

 man's hand was against his neighbor. The great object which 

 had drawn Dr. Livingstone there was the river which flowed 

 along, as he knew, somewhere on the western border of this 

 country, and it was necessary to pass through these wilds in 

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