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cowed, and the fear of death was on them. Dugunibe said 

 to me, " I shall do my utmost to get all the captives, but he 

 must make friends now, in order that the market may not 

 be given up." Blood was mixed, and an essential condition 

 was, " You must give us chitoka," or market. He and most 

 others saw that in theoretically punishing Manilla, they 

 had slaughtered the very best friends that strangers had 

 The Banian slaves openly declare that they will go only to 

 Lomame, and no further. Whatever the Ujijian slavers may 

 pretend, they all hate to have me as a witness of their cold- 

 blooded atrocities. The Banian slaves would like to go 

 with Tagamoio, and share in his rapine and get slaves. I 

 tried to go down Lualaba, then up it, and west, but with 

 bloodhounds it is out of the question. I see nothing for it 

 but to go back to Ujiji for other men, though it will throw 

 me out of the chance of discovering the fourth great Lake in 

 the Lualaba line of drainage, and other things of great value. 



At last I said that I would start for Ujiji, in three days, 

 on foot. I wished to speak to Tagamoio about the captive 

 relations of the chiefs, but he always ran away when he saw 

 me coming. 



11th Juhj. — All the rest of Dugumbe's party offered me a 

 share of every kind of goods they had, and pressed me not 

 to be ashamed to tell them what I needed. I declined 

 everything save a little gunpowder, but they all made pre- 

 sents of beads, and I was glad to return equivalents in cloth. 

 It is a sore affliction, at least forty-five days in a straight 

 line — equal to 300 miles, or by the turnings and windings 

 600 English miles, and all after feeding and clothing the 

 Banian slaves for twenty-one months ! But it is for the best 

 though ; if I do not trust to the riffraff of Ujiji, I must wait 

 for other men at least ten months there. With help from 

 above I shall yet go through Bua, see the underground 

 excavations first, then on to Katanga, and the four ancient 

 fountains eight days beyond, and after that Lake Lincoln. 



