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than for ivory, each longs to be able to tell a tale of blood, 

 and the Manyuema are an easy prey. Hassani assaulted the 

 people at Moene Lualaba's, and now they keep to the other 

 bank, and I am forced to bargain with Kasonga for a canoe, 

 and he sends to a friend for one to be seen on the 13th. 

 This Hassani declared to me that he would not begin hosti- 

 lities, but he began nothing else ; the prospect of getting 

 slaves overpowers all else, and blood flows in horrid streams. 

 The Lord look on it ! Hassani will have some tale to tell 

 Mohamad Bogharib. 



[At the outset of his explorations Livingstone fancied 

 that there were degrees in the sufferings of slaves, and that 

 the horrors perpetrated by the Portuguese of Tette were 

 unknown in the system of slave hunting which the Arabs 

 jDursue : we now see that a further acquaintance with the 

 slave-trade of the Interior has restored the balance of 

 infamy, and that the same tale of murder and destruction is 

 common wherever the traffic extends, no matter by whom it 

 is carried on.] 



15th March. — Falsehood seems ingrained in their consti- 

 tutions : no wonder that in all this region they have never 

 tried to propagate Islamism ; the natives soon learn to hate 

 them, and slaving, as carried on by the Kilwans and 

 Ujijians, is so bloody, as to prove an effectual barrier 

 against proselytism. 



My men are not come back : I fear they are engaged in 

 some broil. In confirmation of what I write, some of the 

 party here assaulted a village of Kasonga' s, killed three men 

 and captured women and children ; they pretended that 

 they did not know them to be his people, but they did not 

 return the- captives. 



2Qth March. — I am heartsore, and sick of human blood. 



21st March. — Kasongo's brother's child died, and he asked 

 me to remain to-day while he buried the dead, and he would 



