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



meant, " We want much higher pay for our dhows than Arabs 

 generally get :" they showed such an intention to fleece me 

 that I was glad to get out of their power, and save the few 

 goods I had. I went a few miles, when two strangers I had 

 allowed to embark (from being under obligations to their 

 masters), worked against each other: so I had to let one 

 land, and but for his master would have dismissed the 

 other : I had to send an apology to the landed man's master 

 for politeness' sake. 



[It is necessary to say a few words here, so unostenta- 

 tiously does Livingstone introduce this new series of ex- 

 plorations to the reader. The Manyuema country, for which 

 he set out on the 12th of July, 1869, was hitherto unknown. 

 As we follow him we shall see that in almost every respect 

 both the face of the country and the people differ from other 

 regions lying nearer to the East Coast. It appears that the 

 Arabs had an inkling of the vast quantities of ivory which 

 might be procured there, and Livingstone went into the 

 new field with the foremost of those hordes of Ujijian traders 

 who, in all probability, will eventually destroy tribe after 

 tribe by slave-trading and pillage, as they have done in so 

 many other regions.] 



Off at 6 a.m., and passed the mouth of the Luishe, in 

 Ivibwe Bay ; 3^ hours took us to Eombola or Lombola, where 

 all the building wood of Ujiji is cut. 



12th July. — Left at 1.30 a.m., and pulled 7£ hours to 

 the left bank of the Malagarasi River. We cannot go by 

 day, because about 11 a.m. a south-west wind commences to 

 blow, which the heavy canoes cannot face; it often begins 

 earlier or later, according to the phases of the moon. An 

 east wind blows from sunrise till 10 or 11 a.m., and the south- 

 west begins. The Malagarasi is of considerable size at its 

 confluence, and has a large islet covered with eschinomena, 

 or pith hat material, growing in its way. 



