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that I, feeling ashamed to see one of his relatives in a 

 slave-stick, had released her, and would take her on to her 

 husband. 



She is evidently a lady among them, having many fine 

 beads and some strung on elephant's hair : she has a good 

 deal of spirit too, for on being liberated she went into the 

 old man's house and took her basket and calabash. A 

 virago of a wife shut the door and tried to prevent her, 

 as well as to cut off the beads from her person, but she 

 resisted like a good one, and my men thrust the door open 

 and let her out, but minus her slave. The other wife — 

 for old officious had two — joined her sister in a furious tirade 

 of abuse, the elder holding her sides in regular fishwife 

 fashion till I burst into a laugh, in which the younger wife 

 joined. I explained to the different headmen in front of this 

 village what I had done, and sent messages to Chirikaloma 

 explanatory of my friendly deed to his relative, so that no 

 misconstruction should be put on my act. 



We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the 

 body and lying on the path : a group of men stood about a 

 hundred yards off on one side, and another of women on the 

 other side, looking on ; they said an Arab who passed early 

 that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he 

 had given for her, because she was unable to walk any 

 longer. 



21th June. — To-day we came upon a man dead from star- 

 vation, as he was very thin. One of our men wandered and 

 found a number of slaves with slave-sticks on, abandoned 

 by their master from want of food ; they were too weak to 

 be able to speak or say where they had come from; some 

 were quite young. We crossed the Tulosi, a stream coming 

 from south, about twenty yards wide. 



At Chenjewala's the people are usually much startled 

 when I explain that the numbers of slaves we see dead on 

 the road have been killed partly by those who sold them, 



