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



Sesamuni seed is abundant just now and cakes are made 

 of ground-nuts, as on the West Coast. Duguinbe's horde 

 tried to deal in the market in a domineering way. " I shall 

 buy that," said one. " These are mine," said another ; " no 

 one must touch them but me," but the market-women 

 taught them that they could not monopolize, but deal 

 fairly. They are certainly clever traders, and keep each 

 other in countenance, they stand by each other, and will 

 not allow overreaching, and they give food astonishingly 

 cheap : once in the market they have no fear. 



12th and 13th July. — The Banian slaves declared before 

 Dugumbe that they would go to the Eiver Lomame, 

 but no further : he spoke long to them, but they will not 

 consent to go further. When told that they would thereby 

 lose all their pay, they replied, " Yes, but not our lives," and 

 they walked off from him muttering, which is insulting to 

 one of his rank. I then added, " I have goods at Ujiji ; I 

 don't know how many, but they are considerable, take 

 them all, and give me men to finish my work ; if not 

 enough, I will add to them, only do not let me be forced 

 to return now I am so near the end of my undertaking." 

 He said he would make a plan in conjunction with his 

 associates, and report to me. 



14.th July. — I am distressed and perplexed what to do so< 

 as not to be foiled, but all seems against me. 



15th July. — The reports of guns on the other side of the 

 Lualaba all the morning tell of the people of Dugunibe 

 murdering those of Kirnburu and others who mixed blood 

 with Manilla. " Manilla is a slave, and how dares he to 

 mix blood with chiefs who ought only to make friends 

 with free men like us " — this is their complaint. Kirnburu 

 gave Manilla three slaves, and he sacked ten villages in 

 token of friendship; he proposed to give Dugumbe nine 

 slaves in the same operation, but Dugumbe's people destroy 

 his villages, and shoot and make his people captives to> 



