I860.] COMPULSORY ABOLITION. 9 



11 th May. — Syde bin Habib arrived to-day with his cargo 

 of copper and slaves. I have to change house again, and 

 wish I were away, now that I am getting stronger. Attend- 

 ants arrive from Parra or Mparra. 



[The old slave-dealer, whom he met at Casembe's, and 

 who seems to have been set at liberty through Livingstone's 

 instrumentality, arrives at XJjiji at last.] 



18th May. — Mohamad bin Saleh arrived to-day. He left 

 this when comparatively young, and is now well advanced 

 in years. 



The Bakatala at Lualaba West killed Salem bin Habib. 

 Mem. — Keep clear of them. Makwamba is one of the chiefs 

 of the rock-dwellers, Ngulu is another, and Masika-Kitobwe 

 on to Baluba. Sef attached Kilolo N'tambwe. 



19th May. — The emancipation of our West-Indian slaves 

 was the work of but a small number of the people of 

 England — the philanthropists and all the more advanced 

 thinkers of the age. Numerically they were a very small 

 minority of the population, and powerful only from the 

 superior abilities of the leading men, and from having 

 the right, the true, and just on their side. Of the rest of 

 the population an immense number were the indifferent, who 

 had no sympathies to spare for any beyond their own fire- 

 side circles. In the course of time sensation writers came 

 up on the surface of society, and by way of originality they 

 condemned almost every measure and person of the past. 

 " Emancipation was a mistake ; " and these fast writers drew 

 along with them a large body, who would fain be slave- 

 holders themselves. We must never lose sight of the fact 

 that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, 

 large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only be- 

 cause the law forbids the practice. In this proclivity we 

 see a great part of the reason of the frantic sympathy of 

 thousands with the rebels in the great Black war in America. 



