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tongues, but I was assured that many lions are killed on 

 the Basango highland, and they, in common with all beasts 

 there, are extremely fat : so it is not at all difficult to buy a 

 calabash of the preventive, and Banyamwezi, desirous of 

 taking cattle to the coast for sale, know the substance, and 

 use it successfully (?). 



11th August. — Came on by a -long march of six 

 hours across plains of grass and watercourses, lined with 

 beautiful trees, to Kassessa's, the chief of Mamohela, who 

 has helped the Arabs to scourge several of his countrymen 

 for old feuds : he gave them goats, and then guided them 

 by night to the villages, where they got more goats and 

 many captives, each to be redeemed with ten goats more. 

 During the last foray, however, the people learned that every 

 shot does not kill, and they came up to the party with bows 

 and arrows, and compelled the slaves to throw down their 

 guns .and powder-horns. They would have shown no mercy 

 had Manyuema been thus in slave power ; but this is a 

 beginning of the end, which will exclude Arab traders from 

 the country. I rested half a day, as I am still ill. I do 

 most devoutly thank the Lord for sparing my life three 

 times in one day. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the 

 day of trouble, and He knows them that trust in Him. 



[The brevity of the following notes is fully accounted 

 for: Livingstone was evidently suffering too severely to 

 write more.] 



12th August— Mamohela camp all burned off. We sleep 

 at Mamohela village. 



13th August. — At a village on the bank of Biver Lolindi. 

 I am suffering greatly. A man brought a young, nearly full- 

 fledged, kite from a 'nest on a tree : this is the first case of 

 their breeding, that I am sure of, in this country : they are 

 migratory into these intertropical lands from the south, 

 probably. 



