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dialect, the native language current in Angola. An Ambonda 

 chieftain named Kangombe rules over them. 



Not only are they slave-purchasers, but first teachers of 

 the traffic in some instances among the interior natives. Pro- 

 fessor Sedgwick has already told us of the traffic being com- 

 menced with Sebituane in 1851. This was their doing, bar- 

 tering clothing and old Portuguese guns for boys. In this 

 case, as in many others, the guilt was on their side. They 

 took advantage of the urgent necessities of the native pur- 

 chaser by refusing to trade except for slaves. Ivory and other 

 valuables were offered, but refused. In 1850 they took home 

 a favourable account of the opportunities for trade among the 

 Makololo ; in 1851 they went themselves as we have seen ; 

 and in 1853 a Portuguese came to deal in slaves, kidnapping 

 a whole village. Since he was carried in a hammock, he is 

 remembered by the people as " father of the bag." 



In settling the conditions for a foray on one occasion, with 

 the Makololo, they bargained as a price for using their guns, 

 that they should make slaves of the captives, and that their 

 partners should take the cattle as prizes. 



Santura, a Barotse chief, predecessor of Sebituane, not only 

 refused their offers to trade in slaves, but sent them summarily 

 about their business. Not so with Masiko, another Barotse 

 chief, who restricted himself to selling them orphans. They 

 profess to use the slaves for domestic purposes. 



These people use an activity worthy of a better cause. 

 They are very avaricious, and bring Manchester and other 

 British goods into the heart of Africa. Get them to pursue a 

 lawful traffic, and they would become as active for good as 

 they are now for evil. Being by all means desirous of pre- 

 venting the natives from trading directly with Europeans, 

 they invented and spread the report of the white man's living 

 in the sea, eating negroes, &c. They trade very extensively, 

 taking slave-gangs about in chains, and have frequently crossed 

 the country to the western side. 



