368 THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



perhaps more prevalent in independent India than in 

 East Africa ; moreover, there is no adscriptus glebae, as 

 in the horrid thraldom of Malabar. To this general 

 rule there are terrible exceptions, as might be expected 

 amongst a people with scant regard for human life. 

 The Kirangozi, or guide, attached to the Expedition on 

 return from Ujiji, had loitered behind for some days 

 because his slave girl was too footsore to walk. When 

 tired of waiting he cut off her head, for fear lest she 

 should become gratis another man's property. 



In East Africa there are two forms of this traffic, the 

 export and the internal trade. For the former slaves 

 are collected like ivories throughout the length and 

 breadth of the land. They are driven down from the 

 principal depots, the island of Kasenge, Ujiji, Unyany- 

 embe, and Zungomero to the coast by the Arab and 

 Wasawahili merchants, who afterwards sell them in 

 retail at the great mart, Zanzibar. The internal trade 

 is carried on between tribe and tribe, and therefore 

 will long endure. 



The practice of slavery in East Africa, besides de- 

 moralising and brutalising the race, leads to the results 

 which effectually bar increase of population and pro- 

 gress towards civilisation. These are commandos, or 

 border wars, and intestine confusion. 



All African wars, it has been remarked, are for one 

 of two objects, cattle-lifting or kidnapping. Some of the 

 pastoral tribes — as the Wamasai, the Wakwafi, the 

 Watuta, and the Warori — assert the theory that none 

 but themselves have a right to possess herds, and that 

 they received the gift directly from their ancestor who 

 created cattle ; in practice they covet the animals 

 for the purpose of a general gorge. Slaves, how- 

 ever, are much more frequently the end and aim of 



