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Taganioio's people, and others of this party, headed by 

 Dugumbe. This slaughter was peculiarly atrocious, inas- 

 much as we have always heard that women coming to or 

 from market have never been known to be molested : even 

 when two districts are engaged in actual hostilities, " the 

 women," say they, " pass among us to market unmolested," 

 nor has one ever been known to be plundered by the men. 

 These Nigger Moslems are inferior to the Manyuema in 

 justice and right. The people under Hassani began the 

 superwickedness of capture and pillage of all indiscrimi- 

 nately. Dugumbe promised to send over men to order 

 Taganioio's men to cease firing and burning villages ; they 

 remained over among the ruins, feasting on goats and fowls 

 all night, and next day (16th) continued their infamous 

 work Hill twenty-seven villages were destroyed. 



16th July. — I restored upwards of thirty of the rescued 

 to their friends : Dugumbe seemed to act in good faith, and 

 kept none of them; it was his own free will that guided 

 him. Women are delivered to their husbands, and about 

 thirty-three canoes left in the creek are to be kept for the 

 owners too. 



12 a.m. — Shooting still going on on the other side, and 

 many captives caught. At 1 p.m. Taganioio's people began 

 to cross over in canoes, beating their drums, firing their 

 guns, and shouting, as if to say, " See the conquering heroes 

 come ; " they are answered by the women of Dugmnbe's 

 camp lullilooing, and friends then fire off their guns in joy. 

 I count seventeen villages in flames, and the smoke goes 

 straight up and forms clouds at the top of the pillar, showing 

 great heat evolved, for the houses are full of carefully- 

 prepared firewood. Dugumbe denies having sent Tagamoio 

 on this foray, and Tagamoio repeats that he went to punish 

 the friends made by Manilla, who, being a slave, had no 

 right to make war and burn villages, that could only be 

 done by free men. Manilla confesses to me privately that 



