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told us that he had received orders from Lisbon to take 

 advantage of our passing to re-establish Zumbo ; and 

 accordingly these traders had built a small stockade on 

 the rich plain of the right bank of Loangwa, a mile above 

 the site of the ancient mission church of Zumbo, as part 

 of the royal policy. The bloodshed was quite unnecessary, 

 because, the land at Zumbo having of old been purchased, 

 the natives would have always of their own accord 

 acknowledged the right thus acquired; they pointed it 

 out to Dr. Livingstone in 1856 that, though they were 

 cultivating it, is was not theirs, but white man's land. 

 Sequasha and his mate had left their ivory in charge of 

 some of their slaves, who, in the absence of their masters, 

 were now having a gay time of it, and getting drunk 

 every day with the produce of the sacked villages. The 

 head slave came and begged for the musket of the delin- 

 quent ferryman, which was returned. He thought his 

 master did perfectly right to kill Mpangwe, when asked 

 to do it for the fee of ten tusks, and he even justified it 

 thus : " If a man invites you to eat, will you not partake ? " 

 We continued our journey on the 28th of June. Game 

 was extremely abundant, and there were many lions. 

 Mbia drove one off from his feast on a wild pig, and appro- 

 priated what remained of the pork to his own use. Lions 

 are particularly fond of the flesh of wild pigs and zebras, 

 and contrive to kill a large number of these animals. In 

 the afternoon we arrived at the village of the female 

 chief, Ma-mburuma, but she herself was now living on the 

 opposite side of the river. Some of her people called, and 

 said she had been frightened by seeing her son and other 

 children killed by Sequasha, and had fled to the other 

 bank ; but when her heart was healed, she would return 

 and live in her own village, and among her own people. 

 She constantly inquired of the black traders, who came up 

 the river, if they had any news of the white man who 



