78 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. III. 



The idea of guilt probably floated but vaguely in their 

 minds, but the loss of life we have witnessed (in the guilt 

 of which the sellers as well as the buyers participate) conies 

 home very forcibly to their minds. 



Mataka has been an active hand in slave wars himself, 

 though now he wishes to settle down in quiet. The Waiyau 

 generally are still the most active agents the slave-traders 

 have. The caravan leaders from Kilwa arrive at a Waiyau 

 village, show the goods they have brought, are treated 

 liberally by the elders, and told to wait and enjoy them- 

 selves, slaves enough to purchase all will be procured : then 

 a foray is made against the Manganja, who have few or no 

 guns. The Waiyau who come against them are abundantly 

 supplied with both by their coast guests. Several of the low 

 coast Arabs, who differ in nothing from the Waiyau, usually 

 accompany the foray, and do business on their own account : 

 this is the usual way in which a safari is furnished with 

 slaves. 



Makanjela, a Waiyau chief about a third of the way from 

 Mtende's to Mataka, has lost the friendship of all his neigh- 

 bours by kidnapping and selling their people; if any of 

 Mataka's people are found in the district between Makanjela 

 and Moembe, they are considered fair game and sold. Makan- 

 jela's people cannot pass Mataka to go to the Manganja, so 

 they do what they can by kidnapping and plundering all 

 who fall into their hands. 



When I employed two of Mataka's people to go back on 

 the 14th with food to the havildar and sepoys, they went a 

 little way and relieved some, but would not venture as far 

 as the Luatize, for fear of losing their liberty by Makan- 

 jela's people. I could not get the people of the country 

 to go back ; nor could I ask the Nassick boys, who had 

 been threatened by the sepoys with assassination, — and it 

 was the same with the Johanna men, because, though 

 Mahometans, the sepoys had called them Caffirs, &c, and 



