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lie said to the crowd that surrounded him, " Don't kill me, 

 and I shall take you to where the women are." " You lie," 

 said his enemies ; " you intend to take us where we may be 

 shot by your friends ;" and they killed him. It was horrible : 

 I protested loudly against any repetition of this wickedness, 

 and the more sensible agreed that prisoners ought not to 

 be killed, but the Banyamwezi are incensed against the 

 Babemba because of the women killed on the 22nd. 



25th November. — The Babemba kept off on the third 

 day, and the Arabs are thinking it will be a good thing if 

 we get out of the country unscathed. Men were sent off on 

 the night of the 23rd to Syde bin Habib for powder and 

 help. Mohamad Bogharib is now unwilling to take the 

 onus of the war : he blames Mpamari, and Mpamari blames 

 him ; I told Mohamad that the war was undoubtedly his 

 work, inasmuch as Bin Juma is his man, and he approved of 

 his seizing the women. 



He does not like this, but it is true ; he would not have 

 entered a village of Casembe or Moamba or Chikumbi as he 

 did Chapi's man's village : the people here are simply men of 

 more metal than he imagined, and his folly in beginning a 

 war in which, if possible, his slaves will slip through his hands 

 is apparent to all, even to himself. Syde sent four barrels of 

 gunpowder and ten men, who arrived during last night. 



21th November. — Two of Muabo's men came over to bring- 

 on a parley; one told us that he had been on the south 

 side of the village before, and heard one man say to another 

 " mo pige " (shoot him). Mpamari gave them a long oration 

 in exculpation, but it was only the same everlasting story 

 of fugitive slaves. The slave-traders cannot prevent them 

 from escaping, and impudently think that the country 

 people ought to catch them, and thus be their humble 

 servants, and also the persecutors of their own countrymen ! 

 If they cannot keep them, why buy them — why put their 

 money into a bag with holes ? 



