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CHAPTEK V. 



The Chitoka or market gathering. The broken watch. Improvises 

 ink. Builds a new house at Nyangwe on the bank of the Lualaba. 

 Marketing. Cannibalism. Lake Kamalondo. Dreadful effect of 

 slaving. News of country across the Lualaba. Tiresome frustration. 

 The Bakuss. Feeble health. Busy scene at market. Unable to 

 procure canoes. Disaster to Arab canoes. Bapids in Lualaba. Pro- 

 ject for visiting Lake Lincoln and the Lomame. Offers large reward 

 for canoes and men. The slave's mistress. Alarm of natives at market. 

 Fiendish slaughter of women by Arabs. Heartrending scene. Death 

 on land and in the river. Tagamoio's assassinations. Continued 

 slaughter across the river. Livingstone becomes desponding. 



1st April, 1871. — The banks are well peopled, but one must 

 see the gathering at the market, of about 3000, chiefly 

 women, to judge of their numbers. They hold market one 

 day, and then omit attendance here for three days, going* 

 to other markets at other points in the intervals. It is a 

 great institution in Manyuema: numbers seem to inspire 

 confidence, and they enforce justice for each other. As a 

 rule, all prefer to buy and sell in the market, to doing busi- 

 ness anywhere else ; if one says, " Come, sell me that fowl 

 or cloth," the reply is, " Come to the ' Chitoka,' or market- 

 place." 



2nd April. — To-day the market contained over a thousand 

 people, carrying earthen pots and cassava, grass cloth, fishes, 

 and fowls; they were alarmed at my coming among them 

 and were ready to flee, many stood afar off in suspicion ; 

 some came from the other side of the river with their goods. 

 To-morrow market is held up river. 



3rd April. — I tried to secure a longitude by fixing a 



