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subject can easily guess the rest. Mamohela's camp had 

 several times been set on fire at night by the tribes which 

 suffered assault, but did not effect all that was intended. 

 The Arabs say that, the Manyuema now understand that every 

 gun-shot does not kill ; the next thing they will learn will 

 be to grapple in close quarters in the forest, where their 

 spears will outmatch the guns in the hands of slaves, it 

 will follow, too, that no one will be able to pass through 

 this country ; this is the usual course of Suaheli trading ; 

 it is murder and plunder, and each slave as he rises in his 

 owner's favour is eager to show himself a mighty man of 

 valour, by coldblooded killing of his countrymen : if they 

 can kill a fellow-nigger, their pride boils up. The con- 

 science is not enlightened enough to cause uneasiness, and 

 Islam gives less than the light of nature. 



I am grievously tired of living here. Mohamad is as 

 kind as he can be, but to sit idle or give up before I finish 

 my work are both intolerable ; I cannot bear either, yet I 

 am forced to remain by want of people. 



II th November. — I wrote to Mohamad bin Saleh at XJjiji 

 for letters and medicines to be sent in a box of China tea, 

 which is half empty : if he cannot get carriers for the long- 

 box itself, then he is to send these, the articles of which I 

 stand in greatest need. 



The relatives of a boy captured at Monanyembe brought 

 three goats to redeem him : he is sick and emaciated ; one 

 goat was rejected. The boy shed tears when he saw his 

 grandmother, and the father too, when his goat was rejected. 

 " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are 

 done under the sun : and behold the tears of such as were 

 oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of 

 their oppressors there was power ; but they had no com- 

 forter." — Eccles. iv. 1. The relations were told either to 

 bring the goat, or let the boy die ; this was hard-hearted. 

 At Mamohela ten goats are demanded for a captive, and 



