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lie did wrong in that, and loses all his beads and many 

 friends in consequence. 



2 p.m. — An old man, called Kabobo, came for his old wife ; 

 I asked her if this were her husband, she went to him, and 

 put her arm lovingly around him, and said " Yes." I gave 

 her five strings of beads to buy food, all her stores being 

 destroyed with her house ; she bowed down, and put her 

 forehead to the ground as thanks, and old Kabobo did the 

 same : the tears stood in her eyes as she went off. Taga- 

 moio caught 17 women, and other Arabs of his party, 27 ; 

 dead by gunshot, 25. The heads of two headmen were 

 brought over to be redeemed by their friends with slaves. 



3 p.m. — Many of the headmen who have been burned out 

 by the foray came over to me, and begged me to come back 

 with them, and appoint new localities for them to settle in 

 .again, but I told them that I was so ashamed of the com- 

 pany in which I found myself, that I could scarcely look 

 the Manyuema in the face. They had believed that I 

 wished to kill them — what did they think now ? I could 

 not remain among bloody companions, and would flee away, 

 I said, but they begged me hard not to leave until they 

 were again settled. 



The open murder perpetrated on hundreds of unsuspecting 

 women fills me with unspeakable horror : I cannot think of 

 going anywhere with the Tagamoio crew ; I must either 

 go down or up Lualaba, whichever the Banian slaves choose. 



4 p.m. — Dugumbe saw that by killing the market people 

 he had committed a great error, and speedily got the chiefs 

 who had come over to me to meet him at his house, and 

 forthwith mix blood : they were in bad case. I could not 

 remain to see to their protection, and Dugumbe, being the 

 best of the whole horde, I advised them to make friends, 

 and then appeal to him as able to restrain to some extent 

 his infamous underlings. One chief asked to have his wife 

 ■and daughter restored to him first, but generally they were 



