108 . LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. IV. 



given yesterday. He offered more food than we chose to 

 take. 



The agricultural class does not seem to be a servile 

 one : all cultivate, and the work is esteemed. The chief 

 was out at his garden when we arrived, and no disgrace 

 is attached to the field labourer. The slaves very likely 

 do the chief part of the work, but all engage in it, and 

 are proud of their skill. Here a great deal of grain is 

 raised, though nearly all the people are Waiyau or Ma- 

 chinga. This is remarkable, as they have till lately been 

 marauding and moving from place to place. The Manganja 

 possessed the large breed of humped cattle which fell into 

 the hands of the Waiyau, and knew how to milk them. 

 Their present owners never milk them, and they have 

 dwindled into a few instead of the thousands of former 

 times.* 



A lion killed a woman early yesterday morning, and ate 

 most of her undisturbed. 



It is getting very hot ; the ground to the feet of the 

 men " burns like fire " after noon, so we are now obliged to 

 make short marches, and early in the morning chiefly. 



Wikatani — Bishop Mackenzie's favourite boy — met a 

 brother here, and he finds that he has an elder brother 

 and a sister at Kabinga's. The father who sold him into 

 slavery is dead. He wishes to stop with his relatives, and 

 it will be well if he does. Though he has not much to say, 

 what he does advance against the slave-trade will have its. 

 weight, and it will all be in the way of preparation for better 

 times and more light. 



The elder brother was sent for, but had not arrived when 



* It is very singular to witness the disgust with, which the idea of 

 drinking milk is received by most of these tribes when we remember 

 that the Caffre nations on the south, and again, tribes more to the north, 

 subsist principally on it. A lad will undergo punishment rather than 

 milk a goat. Eggs are likewise steadily eschewed. — En. 



