1871.] AGONY OF MIND. 139 



18th July. — The murderous assault on the market people 

 felt to me like Gehenna, without the fire and brim- 

 stone ; but the heat was oppressive, and the firearms pour- 

 ing their iron bullets on the fugitives, was not an inapt 

 representative of burning in the bottomless pit. 



The terrible scenes of man's inhumanity to man brought 

 on severe headache, which might have been serious had it 

 not been relieved by a copious discharge of blood ; I was 

 laid up all yesterday afternoon, with the depression the 

 bloodshed made, — it filled me with unspeakable horror. 

 " Don't go away," say the Manyuema chiefs to me ; but 

 I cannot stay here in agony. 



19^ July. — Dugumbe sent me a fine goat, a maneh 

 of gunpowder, a maneh of fine blue beads, and 230 

 cowries, to buy provisions in the way. I proposed to leave 

 a doti Merikano and one of Kanike to buy specimens of 

 workmanship. He sent me two very fine large Manyuema 

 swords, and two equally fine spears, and said that I must not 

 leave anything ; he would buy others with his own goods, 

 and divide them equally with me : he is very friendly. 



Eiver fallen 4^ feet since the 5th ult. 



A few market people appear to-day, formerly they came 

 in crowds : a very few from the west bank bring salt to 

 buy back the baskets from the camp slaves, which they 

 threw away in panic, others carried a little food for sale, 

 about 200 in all, chiefly those who have not lost relatives : 

 one very beautiful woman had a gunshot wound in her 

 upper arm tied round with leaves. Seven canoes came 

 instead of fifty; but they have great tenacity and hopeful- 

 ness, an old established custom has great charms for them, 

 and the market will again be attended if no fresh outrage is 

 committed. No canoes now come into the creek of death. 

 but land above, at Ktambwe's village : this creek, at the 

 bottom of the long gentle slope on which the market was 

 held, probably led to its selection. 



