8G LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. IV. 



Another man was killed within half a mile of this : they 

 quarrelled, and there is virtually no chief. The man was 

 stabbed, the village burned, and the people all fled : they 

 are truly a bloody people ! 



A man died near this, Monasimba went to his wife, and 

 after washing he may appear among men. If no widow can 

 be obtained, he must sit naked behind his house till some 

 one happens to die, all the clothes he wore are thrown 

 away. They are the lowest of the low, and especially in 

 bloodiness : the man who killed a woman without cause goes 

 free, he offered his grandmother to be killed in his stead, 

 and after a great deal of talk nothing was done to him ! 



8th December. — Suleiman-bin-Juma lived on the main- 

 land, Mosessame, opposite Zanzibar : it is impossible to 

 deny his power of foresight, except by rejecting all evidence, 

 for he frequently foretold the deaths of great men among 

 Arabs, and he was pre-eminently a good man, upright 

 and sincere : " Thirti," none like him now for goodness and 

 skill. He said that two middle-sized white men, with 

 straight noses and flowing hair down to the girdle behind, 

 came at times, and told him things to come. He died 

 twelve years ago, and left no successor; he foretold his 

 own decease three days beforehand by cholera. " Heresi," a 

 ball of hair rolled in the stomach of a lion, is a grand charm 

 to the animal and to Arabs. Mohamad has one. 



10th December. — I am sorely let and hindered in this 

 Manyuema. Kain every day, and often at night ; I could 

 not travel now, even if I had men, but I could make some 

 progress ; this is the sorest delay I ever had. I look above 

 for help and mercy. 



[The wearied man tried to while away the time by 

 gaining little scraps of information from the Arabs and 

 the natives, but we cannot fail to see what a serious stress 

 was all the time put upon his constitution under these cir- 



