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After the terrible affair in the water, the party of Taga- 

 moio, who was the chief perpetrator, continued to fire on 

 the people there and fire their villages. As I write I 

 hear the loud wails on the left bank over those who are 

 there slain, ignorant of their many friends now in the depths 

 of Lualaba. Oh, let Thy kingdom come ! No one will ever 

 know the exact loss on this bright sultry summer morning, 

 it gave me the impression of being in Hell. All the slaves 

 in the camp rushed at the fugitives on land, and plundered 

 them : women were for hours collecting and carrying loads 

 of what had been thrown down in terror. 



Some escaped to me, and were protected : Dugumbe saved 

 twenty-one, and of his own accord liberated them, they were 

 brought to me, and remained over night near my house. One 

 woman of the saved had a musket-ball through the thigh, 

 another in the arm. I sent men with our flag to save some, for 

 without a flag they might have been victims, for Tagamoio's 

 people were shooting right and left like fiends. I counted 

 twelve villages burning this morning. I asked the question 

 of Dugumbe and others, " Now for what is all this murder ? ' 

 All blamed Manilla as its cause, and in one sense he was the 

 cause; but it is hardly credible that they repeat it is in 

 order to be avenged on Manilla for making friends with 

 headmen, he being a slave. I cannot believe it fully. The 

 Avish to make an impression in the country as to the 

 importance and greatness of the new comers was the most 

 potent motive ; but it was terrible that the murdering of so 

 many should be contemplated at all. It made me sick at 

 heart. Who could accompany the people of Dugumbe and 

 Tagamoio to Lomame and be free from blood -guiltiness? 



I proposed to Dugumbe to catch the murderers, and 

 hang them up in the market-place, as our protest against 

 the bloody deeds before the Manyuema. If, as he and 

 others added, the massacre was committed by Manilla's 

 people, he would have consented; but it was done by 



