128 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. V. 



an expert ; hence his native name is " Molembalemba " — 

 " writer, writing." 



16th June. — The high winds and drying of soap and 

 sugar tell that the rains are now over in this part. 



18$ June. — Dugumbe arrived, but passed to Moene 

 Nyafigwe's, and found that provisions were so scarce and 

 dear there, as compared with our market, that he was fain 

 to come back to us. He has a large party and 500 guns. 

 He is determined to go into neAv fields of trade, and has all 

 his family with him, and intends to remain six or seven 

 years, sending regularly to Ujiji for supplies of goods. 



20th June. — Two of Dugumbe's party brought presents of 

 four large fundos of beads each. All know that my goods 

 are unrighteously detained by Shereef and they show me 

 kindness, which I return by some fine calico which I have. 

 Among the first words Dugumbe said to me were, " Why 

 your own slaves are your greatest enemies : I will buy you 

 a canoe, but the Banian slaves' slanders have put all the 

 Manyuema against you." I knew that this was true, and 

 that they were conscious of the sympathy of the Ujijian 

 traders, who hate to have me here. 



2£th June. — Hassani's canoe party in the river were foiled 

 by narrows, after they had gone down four days. Rocks 

 jut out on both sides, not opposite, but alternate to each 

 other; and the vast mass of water of the great river 

 jammed in, rushes round one promontory on to another, and 

 a frightful whirlpool is formed in which the first canoe went 

 and was overturned, and five lives lost. Had I been there, 

 mine would have been the first canoe, for the traders would 

 have made it a point of honour to give me the precedence 

 (although actually to make a feeler of me), while they 

 looked on in safety. The men in charge of Hassani's canoes 

 were so frightened by this accident that they at once re- 

 solved to return, though they had arrived in the country 

 of the ivory : they never looked to see whether the canoes 



