280 CONDUCT OF THE MANGANJA. CHAP. X. 



and drinking beer — while a powerful enemy was close at 

 hand, bringing death or slavery to every one in the 

 village. One of our men called out to several who came 

 to the bank to look at us, that the Ajawa were coming 

 and were even now at Mikena's village ; but they were 

 dazed with drinking, and took no notice of the warning. 



Crowds of carriers offered their services after we left 

 the river. Several sets of them placed so much confidence 

 in us, as to decline receiving payment at the end of the 

 first day; they wished to work another day, and so receive 

 both days' wages in one piece. The young headman of 

 a new village himself came on with his men. The march 

 was a pretty long one, and one of the men proposed to lay 

 the burdens down beside a hut a mile or more from the 

 next village. The headman scolded the fellow for his 

 meanness in wishing to get rid of our goods where we 

 could not procure carriers, and made him carry them on. 

 The village, at the foot of the cataracts, had increased 

 very much in size and wealth since we passed it on our 

 way up. A number of large new huts had been built ; 

 and the people had a good stock of cloth and beads. We 

 could not account for this sudden prosperity, until we saw 

 some fine large canoes, instead of the two old, leaky things 

 which lay there before. This had become a crossing-place 

 for the slaves that the Portuguese agents were carrying to 

 Tette, because they were afraid to take them across nearer 

 to where the ship lay, about seven miles off. Nothing 

 was more disheartening than this conduct of the Man- 

 ganja, in profiting by the entire breaking up of their 

 nation. 



We reached the ship on the 8th of November, 1861, in 

 a very weak condition, having suffered more from hunger 

 than on any previous trip. Heavy rains commenced on 

 the 9th, and continued several days; the river rose rapidly, 

 and became highly discoloured. Bishop Mackenzie came 



