410 ATTACK ON THE MISSIONARIES. Chap. XX. 



to the upper waters of the Kuo in the Shirwa valley, instead 

 of to its mouth. Entering an Anguro slave-trading village, 

 they soon began to suspect that the people meant mischief, 

 and just before sunset a woman told some of their men that 

 if they slept there they would all be killed. On their pre- 

 paring to leave, the Anguro followed them and shot their 

 arrows at the retreating party. Two of the carriers were 

 captured, and all the goods were taken by these robbers. 

 An arrow-head struck deep into the stock of Proctor's gun ; 

 and the two Missionaries, barely escaping with their lives, 

 swam a deep river at night, and returned to Magomero 

 famished and exhausted. 



The wives of the captive carriers came to the Bishop day 

 after day weeping and imploring him to rescue their husbands 

 from slavery. The men had been caught while in his service, 

 no one else could be entreated ; there was no public law nor 

 any power superior to his own, to which an appeal could be 

 made; for in him Church and State were, in the disorganized 

 state of the country, virtually united. It seemed to him to be 

 clearly his duty to tiy and rescue these kidnapped members 

 of the Mission family. He accordingly invited the veteran 

 Makololo to go with him on this somewhat hazardous errand. 

 Nothing could have been proposed to them which they would 

 have liked better, and they went with alacrity to eat the sheep 

 of the Anguro, only regretting that the enemy did not keep 

 cattle as well. Had the matter been left entirely in their 

 hands, they w T ould have made a clean sweep of that part of 

 the country ; but the Bishop restrained them, and went in an 

 open manner, thus commending the measure to all the natives, 

 as one of justice. This deliberation, however, gave the delin- 

 quents a chance of escape.* 



* On the -way the Bishop is said to 

 have had an opportunity of correcting 



a slight geographical mistake made 

 by Dr. Livingstone when Lake Shirwa 



