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cases of brandy for trade. He then went to Bagamoyo on the mainland, 

 and received from two Banyans there, whose names to me are unknown, 

 quantities of opium and gunpowder, which, with the soap and brandy, were 

 to be retailed by Shereef on the journey. 



In the Bagamoyo Banyan's house, Shereef broke the soap boxes, and 

 stowed the contents and the opium in my bales of calico, in order that the 

 carriers paid by me should carry them. Others were employed to carry the 

 cases of brandy and kegs of gunpowder, and paid with my cloth. Hence- 

 forth all the expenses of the journey were defrayed out of my property, and 

 while retailing the barter goods of his Banyan accomplices, he was in no 

 hurry to relieve my wants, but spent fourteen months between the coast and 

 Ujiji, a distance which could have been easily accomplished in three. . . . 

 Two months at one spot, and two months at another place, and two at a 

 third, without reason except desire to profitably retail his brandy, etc., which 

 some people think Moslems never drink, but he was able to send back from 

 Unyanyembe over sixty pounds worth of ivory — the carriers being again 

 paid from my stores. He ran riot with the supplies, all the way purchasing 

 the most expensive food for himself, his slaves, and his women, the country 

 afforded. When he reached Ujiji his retail trade for the Banyans and him- 

 self was finished ; and, in defiance of his engagement to follow wherever I led, 

 when men from a camp eight days beyond Bambarrie went to Ujiji and reported 

 to him that I was near and waiting for him, he refused their invitation to 

 return with them." 



Leaders of slave parties often resort to massacre with the view of inspiring 

 a dread of their power, and to ensure the rapid capturing of slaves during the 

 confusion thus created. Dr. Livingstone gives a terrible narrative of an attack 

 upon the unoffending Manyema: — " On the 13th of June, a massacre was per- 

 petrated which filled me with such intolerable loathing, that I resolved to 

 yield to the Banyan slaves, return to Ujiji, get men from the coast, and try 

 to finish the rest of my work by going outside the area of Ujijian bloodshed, 

 instead of vainly trying from its interior outwards. 



" Dugumbe's* people built their huts on the right bank of Lualaba, at a 

 market-place called Nyangwe. On hearing that the head slave of a trader at 

 Ujiji had, in order to get canoes cheap, mixed blood with the head men of 

 the Bagenya on the left bank, [they] were disgusted with his assurance, and 

 resolved to punish him, and make an impression in the country in favour 

 of their own greatness by an assault on the market people, and on all the 

 Bagenya who had dared to make friendship with any but themselves. 

 Tagamoio, the principal under-trader of Dugumbe's party, was the perpetrator. 



* Dugumbe was an Arab trader 



