490 LIFE OF DA VI J) LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



worse than ten fevers — that is, fevers treated by our medicine, and not by 

 the dirt supplied to Bishop Mackenzie at the Cape as the same. Besides 

 being unwilling to bear the new comers company, I feared that, by further 

 exposure in the rains, the weakness might result in something worse. . . 



" The rains continued into July, and fifty-eight inches fell. The mud 

 from the clayey soil was awful ; and it laid up some of the strongest men, in 

 spite of their intense eagerness for ivory. I lost no time, after it was fea- 

 sible to travel, in preparing to follow the river ; but my attendants were fed 

 and lodged by the slave-women, whose husbands were away from the -camp 

 in trade, and pretended to fear going into a canoe. I consented to refrain 

 from buying one. They then pretended to fear the people, though the 

 inhabitants all along the Lualaba were reported by the slaves to be remark- 

 ably friendly. I have heard both slaves and freemen say, l No one will ever 

 attack people so good' as they found them. Elsewhere I could employ the 

 country people as carriers, and was comparatively independent, though de- 

 serted by some four times even. But in Manyema no one can be induced to 

 go into the next district, for fear, they say, of being killed and eaten." 



In a despatch addressed to Earl Granville, dated Ujiji, Nov. 14, 1871, 

 Dr. Livingstone exposes the fact that the slave trade in Central Africa is 

 mainly carried on for the benefit of British subjects. He says: — 



" In my letter dated Bambarre, November 1870, now enclosed, I stated 

 my grave suspicions that a packet of about forty letters — despatches, copies of 

 all the astronomical observations from the coast onwards, and sketch maps on 

 tracing paper, intended to convey a clear idea of all the discoveries up to the 

 time of arrival at Ujiji — would be destroyed. It was delivered to the agent 

 here of the Governor of Unyanyembe, and I paid him in full all he demanded 

 to transmit it to Syde-bin-Salem Buraschid, the so-called Governor, who is 

 merely a trade agent of certain Banyans of Zanzibar, and a person who is 

 reputed dishonest by all. As an agent, he pilfers from his employers, be they 

 Banyans or Arabs; as a Governor, expected to exercise the office of a magistrate, 

 he dispenses justice to him who pays most ; and as the subject of a Sultan who 

 entrusted him because he had no power on the mainland to supersede him, he 

 robs his superior shamelessly. No Arab or native ever utters a good word for 

 him, but all detest him for his unjustice. 



" The following narrative requires it to be known that his brother, Ali- 

 bin-Salem Buraschid, is equally notorious for unblushing dishonesty. All 

 Arabs and Europeans who have had dealings with either speak in unmeasured 

 terms of their fraud and duplicity. The brothers are employed in trade, 

 chiefly by Ludha Damji, the richest Banyan in Zanzibar. 



"It is well known that the slave trade in this country is carried on 

 almost entirely with his money and that of other Banian British subjects. 

 The Banyans advance the goods required, and the Arabs proceed inland as 



