92 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chai\ IV. 



Mokalaose's fears of the Waiyau will make him welcome 

 Jumbe here, and then the Arab will some clay have an op- 

 portunity of scattering his people as he has done those at 

 Kotakota. He has made Losewa too hot for himself. When 

 the people there were carried off by Mataka's people, Jumbe 

 seized their stores of grain, and now has no post to which he 

 can go there. The Loangwa Arabs give an awful account 

 of Jumbe's murders and selling the people, but one cannot 

 take it all in ; at the mildest it must have been bad. This 

 is all they ever do ; they cannot form a state or indepen- 

 dent kingdom : slavery and the slave-trade are insuperable 

 obstacles to any permanence inland; slaves can escape so 

 easily, all therefore that the Arabs do is to collect as much 

 money as they can by hook and by crook, and then leave 

 the country. 



We notice a bird called namtambwe, which sings very 

 nicely with a strong voice after dark here at the Misinje 

 confluence. 



11th August. — Two headmen came down country from 

 villages where we slept, bringing us food, and asking how 

 we are treated ; they advise our going south to Mukate's, 

 where the Lake is narrow. 



12^-14^ August. — Map making ; but my energies were 

 sorely taxed by the lazy sepoys, and I was usually quite 

 tired out at night. Some men have come down from 

 Mataka's, and report the arrival of an Englishman with 

 cattle for me, " he has two eyes behind as well as two in 

 front :" this is enough of news for awhile ! 



Mokalaose has his little afflictions, and he tells me of 

 them. A wife ran away, I asked how many he had ; he told 

 me twenty in all : I then thought he had nineteen too many. 

 He answered with the usual reason, "But who would cook 

 for strangers if I had but one ? " 



We saw clouds of " kungu" gnats on the Lake ; they are not 

 eaten here. An ungenerous traveller coming here with my 



