1371.] FIENDISH MASSACRE. 133 



punish Manilla ; to make an impression, in fact, in the 

 country that they alone are to be dealt with — "make 

 friends with us, and not with Manilla or anyone else" — 

 such is what they insist upon. 



About 1500 people came to market, though many villages 

 of those that usually come from the other side were now in 

 flames, and every now and then a number of shots were fired 

 on the fugitives. 



It was a hot, sultry day, and when I went into the 

 market I saw Adie and Manilla, and three of the men who 

 had lately come with Dugumbe. I was surprised to see 

 these three Avith their guns, and felt inclined to reprove 

 them, as one of my men did, for bringing weapons into the 

 market, but I attributed it to their ignorance, and, it being- 

 very hot, I was Avalking away to go out of the market, when 

 I saw one of the fellows haggling about a fowl, and seizing 

 hold of it. Before I had got thirty yards out, the discharge 

 of two guns in the middle of the crowd told me that slaughter 

 had begun : crowds dashed off from the place, and threw 

 down their wares in confusion, and ran. At the same time 

 that the three opened fire on the mass of people near the 

 upper end of the market-place volleys were discharged from 

 a party down near the creek on the panic-stricken women, 

 who dashed at the canoes. These, some fifty or more, were 

 jammed in the creek, and the men forgot their paddles in the 

 terror that seized all. The canoes were not to be got out, 

 for the creek was too small for so many ; men and women, 

 wounded by the balls, poured into them, and leaped and 

 scrambled into the water, shrieking. A long line of heads 

 in the river showed that great numbers struck out for an 

 island a full mile off: in going towards it they had to put 

 the left shoulder to a current of about two miles an hour ; if 

 they had struck away diagonally to the opposite bank, the 

 current would have aided them, and, though nearly three 

 miles off, some would have gained land : as it was, the heads 



