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hang them up in the market-place, as a protest against the 

 bloody deeds before the Manyuema. If, as he and others de- 

 clared, the massacre was committed by Manilla's people, he 

 would have consented ; but it was done by Tagamoio's people, 

 and others of this party, headed by Dugumbe. This slaughter 

 was peculiarly atrocious, inasmuch as it was well understood, 

 that by a sacred custom women coming to or from market have 

 never been known to be molested : even when two districts are 

 engaged in actual hostilities, "the women," say they, "pass 

 among us to market unmolested," nor has one ever been known 

 to be plundered by the men. But these Moslems were inferior 

 to the Manyuema in sense of justice and right. The people 

 under Hassani began the superwickedness of capture and pillage 

 of all indiscriminately. Dugumbe promised to send over men 

 to order Tagamoio's men to cease firing and burning villages ; 

 they remained over among the ruins, feasting on goats and 

 fowls all night, and next day (16th) continued their infamous 

 work till twenty-seven villages were destroyed. 



Livingstone, by his personal efforts, restored upwards of 

 thirty of the rescued to their friends : Dugumbe seemed to act 

 in good faith, and kept none of them ; it was his own free will 

 that guided him. Women were delivered to their husbands, 

 and about thirty-three canoes left in the creek were kept for the 

 owners. 



While the shooting was still going on on the other side, and 

 many captives being caught, Tagamoio's people began to cross 

 over in canoes, beating their drums, firing their guns, and 

 shouting, as if to say, "See the conquering heroes come;" they 

 are answered by the women of Dugumbe's camp lullilooing, 

 and friends then fire off their guns in joy. 



This horrible massacre was more than he could endure. He 

 never could have consented to go a mile farther with the mur- 

 derers. He had mastered his own feelings for years, had en- 

 dured to be dependent on men whose presence was a continual 

 sorrow, had endured witnessing all the horrors of the slave- 

 trade in its most extravagant proportions and its most abomin- 

 able forms, all in the interest of science and humanity ; to 

 endure this longer was to him worse than death, worse than 

 failure, worse than all other ills combined. He could not go on 



