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Central Africa. 
some few years before Baker had authority to suppress the 
slave-trade, he saw it in all its hateful features, and bears 
ample testimony to its desolating effects. He gives the fol- 
lowing mournful song, as one sung by the rescued slaves, to 
express their feelings at the losses sustained by robbers and 
slave-stealers : 
" Why did you steal my cattle ? 
I am an orphan ; why did you steal my cattle ? 
Were my father alive, you would not have dared to do so ; 
He is no more,, and I am unprotected. 
Give me back my cattle : 
I am an orphan ; oh, give me back my cattle ! " 
An Italian explorer, named Miani, pursued his researches 
into the condition of the people of this Nile region, and 
extended these researches into the Nyam-Nyam territory, 
where he found dwarfs, and cannibals. Colonel Long also 
followed in the same pursuit. A lady explorer deserves 
mention here — Mademoiselle Tinne, a Dutch lady, who is 
said to have been the first European female who ventured 
alone to brave the hardships and dangers attending the work 
of exploration. Lady Baker, Mrs. Livingstone, and Mrs. 
Petherick accompanied their husbands in the same work, 
but Mademoiselle Tinne was alone, save one or two devoted 
female friends who accompanied her and shared her hard- 
ships. This little party was broken up by death in 1863. 
The travellers Speke and Grant spent some time in 
exploring the lake regions of Central Africa. They met 
with Baker at one point, and exchanged information. The 
two travellers had reached Gondokoro from Zanzibar^ Speke 
having walked the whole way. " Grant was in honourable 
rags, his bare knees projecting through the remnants of 
trousers that were an exhibition of rough industry and 
tailor work." At Kamrasi's capital they had experienced 
