42 EETUEN TO THE MAKOLOLO. Chap. II. 



CHAPTEE II. 



Meet Makololo at Tette — Murder of six of them by Bonga, the son of Nyaude 



— Eavages of smallpox — Makololo supported not according to public orders, 

 but by the private bounty of Major Sicard — Convict class called "Incor- 

 rigibles " — Superstitions about mangoes, coffee, and rain-making — Securing 

 slaves by means of domestic ties — Case of voluntary slavery — Cruel nature 

 of half-castes — Native love of trade — Native medical profession — Elephant 

 and crocodile schools of medicine — Dice doctors and their use as detective 

 police — Senna and indigo plants — Coal, gold, and iron — Ascent to Kebra- 

 basa Eapids — Black glaze on rocks — Tribe of Badema — A traveller's tale 



— The river Luia — Hippopotamus flesh — Difficult travelling — Curative 

 sleep — Sunstroke — Morumbwa Cataract — Kebrabasa surveyed from end 

 to end. 



The ship anchored in the stream, off Tette, on the 8th 

 September, 1858, and Dr. Livingstone went ashore in the 

 boat. JSTo sooner did the Makololo* recognise him, than they 

 rushed to the water's edge, and manifested great joy at seeing 

 him again. Some were hastening to embrace him, but others 

 cried out, " Don't touch him, you will spoil his new clothes." 

 The five headmen came on board and listened in quiet sadness 

 to the story of poor Sekwebu, who died at the Mauritius on his 

 way to England. " Men die in any country," they observed, 

 and then told us that thirty of their own number had died 

 of smallpox, having been bewitched by the people of Tette, 

 who envied them because, during the first year, none of 

 their party had died. Six of their young men, becoming 



* Makololo, Manganja, Ajawa, Ba- 

 toka, Matebele, Babisa, Bawe, &c. &c, 

 are all plural nouns ; Ma, Ba, A, being 

 plural prefixes which the Arabs change 

 into "Wa, as Wanyassa, the people of 



Nyassa, or Manganja, Wabisa, who 

 call themselves Babisa, and sometimes 

 Avisa. It has not been deemed ne- 

 cessary to add s to words already 

 plural. 



