10 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. I. 



It is true that we do sympathize with brave men, though 

 Ave may not approve of the objects for which they fight. 

 We admired Stonewall Jackson as a modern type of Crom- 

 well's Ironsides; and we praised Lee for his generalship, 

 which, after all, was chiefly conspicuous by the absence of 

 commanding abilities in his opponents, but, unquestion- 

 ably, there existed besides an eager desire that slaveocracy 

 might prosper, and the Negro go to the wall. The would-be 

 slaveholders showed their leanings unmistakably in re- 

 ference to the Jamaica outbreak ; and many a would-be 

 Colonel Hobbs, in lack of revolvers, dipped his pen in gall 

 and railed against all Niggers who could not be made slaves. 

 We wonder what they thought of their hero, when informed 

 that, for very shame at what he had done and written, he 

 had rushed unbidden out of the world. 



26th May. — Thani bin Suellim came from Unyanyembe 

 on the 20th. He is a slave who has risen to freedom and 

 influence ; he has a disagreeable outward squint of the 

 right eye, teeth protruding from the averted lips, is light- 

 coloured, and of the nervous type of African. He brought 

 two light boxes from Unyembe, and charged six fathoms for 

 one and eight fathoms for the other, though the carriage of 

 both had been paid for at Zanzibar. When I paid him he 

 tried to steal, and succeeded with one cloth by slipping it 

 into the hands of a slave. I gave him two cloths and a 

 double blanket as a present. He discovered afterwards 

 what he knew before, that all had been injured by the wet 

 on the way here, and sent two back openly, which all saw 

 to be an insult. He asked a little coffee, and I gave a 

 plateful ; and he even sent again for more coffee after I had 

 seen reason to resent his sending back my present. I 

 replied, " He won't send coffee back, for I shall give him 

 none." In revenge he sends round to warn all the Ujijians 

 against taking my letters to the coast ; this is in ac- 

 cordance with their previous conduct, for, like the Kilwa 



