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band began their assault on the people on the west of the river, and con- 

 tinued the fire all day. I counted seventeen villages in flames, and next day- 

 six. Dugumbe's power over the underlings is limited, but he ordered them 

 to cease shooting; those in the market were so reckless, they shot two of their 

 own number. Tagamoio's crew came back next day in canoes, shouting and 

 firing off their guns as if believing that they were worthy of renown. 



" Next day about twenty head men fled from the west bank and came 

 to my house. There was no occasion now to tell them that the English had 

 no desire for human blood. They begged hard that I should go over with 

 them and settle with them, and arrange where the new dwellings of each 

 should be. I was so ashamed of the bloody Moslem company in which 

 I found myself, that I was unable to look at the Manyema. I confessed 

 my grief and shame, and was entreated, if I must go, not to leave them 

 now. Dugumbe spoke kindly to them, and would protect them as well as 

 he could against his own people ; but when I went to Tagamoio to ask back 

 the wives and daughters of some of the head men, he always ran off and 

 hid himself. 



" This massacre was the most terrible scene I ever saw. I cannot de- 

 scribe my feelings, and am thankful that I did not give way to them, but 

 by Dugumbe's advice avoided a blood feud with men who, for the time, 

 seemed turned into demons. The whole transaction was the more deplorable, 

 inasmuch as we have always heard from the Manyema, that though the men 

 of the district may be engaged in actual hostilities, the women pass from one 

 market-place to another with their wares, and were never known to be molested. 

 The change has come only with these alien bloodhounds, and all the blood- 

 shed has taken place in order that captives might be seized where it could be 

 done without danger, and in order that the slaving privileges of a petty 

 Sultan should produce abundant fruit. 



" Heartsore, and greatly depressed in spirits, by the instances of ' man's 

 inhumanity to man ' I had unwillingly seen, I commenced the long weary 

 tramp to Ujiji, with the blazing sun right overhead. The mind acted on 

 the body, and it is no over-statement to say that almost every step of be- 

 tween four hundred and five hundred miles was in pain. I felt as if dying 

 on my feet, and I came very near to death in a more summary way. It is 

 within the area of bloodshed that danger alone occurs. I could not induce 

 my Moslem slaves to venture outside that area or sphere. They knew better 

 than I did. ' Was Muhamad not the greatest of all, and their prophet ?' " 



" About midway back to Bambarre, we came to villages where I had 

 formerly seen the young men compelled to carry a trader's ivory. When 

 I came on the scene the young men had laid down the tusks and said : ' Now 

 we have helped you so far without pay, let the men of the villages do as 

 much.' ' No, no, take up the ivory ;' and take it up they did, only to go a 





