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and all the Johanna men now declared that they would go 

 no farther. Musa said, " No good country that ; I want 

 to go back to Johanna to see my father and mother and 

 son." I took him to Marenga, and asked the chief about 

 the Mazitu. He explained that the disturbance was caused 

 by the Manganja finding that Jumbe brought Arabs and 

 ammunition into the country every year, and they resented 

 it in consequence ; they would not allow more to come, be- 

 cause they were the sufferers, and their nation was getting 

 destroyed. 



I explained to Musa that we should avoid the Mazitu : 

 Marenga added, " There are no Mazitu near where you are 

 going ; " but Musa's eyes stood out with terror, and he said, 

 " I no can believe that man." But I inquired, " How can 

 you believe the Arab so easily ? " Musa answered, " I ask 

 him to tell me true, and he say true, true," &c. 



"When we started, all the Johanna men walked off, leaving 

 the goods on the ground. They have been such inveterate 

 thieves that I am not sorry to get rid of them ; for though 

 my party is now inconveniently small, I could not trust 

 them with flints in their guns, nor allow them to remain 

 behind, for their object was invariably to plunder their 

 loads. 



[Here then we have Livingstone's account of the origin 

 of that well-told story, which at first seemed too true. How 

 Mr. Edward Young, R.N., declared it to be false, and sub- 

 sequently proved it untrue, is already well known. This 

 officer's quick voyage to Lake Nyassa reflected the greatest 

 credit on him, and all hearts were filled with joy when he 

 returned and reported the tale of Livingstone's murder to 

 be merely an invention of Musa and his comrades.] 



I ought to mention that the stealing by the Johanna 

 men was not the effect of hunger ; it attained its height 



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